It's always seemed pretty clear to me that a lot of the people propping up the piracy boogeyman were just the same kind of dopes paying $60 day one for every release that were butthurt that people found a way to bypass that.
The Activision/Blizzard and Ubisoft management fuck-ups from the last couple of years don't really convince me that if you even if give these companies all the money in the world that they'll treat their employees any better.
There's people happy when they announce some now-30-years-old game for the virtual console, that they are finally allowed to buy AGAIN.
I mean by all means if you have the money go for it, but let's not pretend that it's an amazing opportunity.
I said before i think piracy is a net positive in the grand scheme of things, and i stand by that, because at the end of the day it's a matter of access + economical means.
Meaning if you pirate something, usually it's because it's outside of your economical means or too hard to access within reason.
Every market has a stress point, after which they'll just say "fuck it" and fire up Torrent.
I know there's some nerds who'll refer back to legality, with reasoning like:
"
if you can't afford it, doesn't mean you have the right to play it" or in case of movies you hear "
wait for it to get screened for free on national tv (in 15 years)".
To me that implies a blind acceptance of (local) law as some sort of divine mandate, which i fundamentally disagree with.
Personal ethics supersede law: If you can afford it and find it buy it; if you can't: Pirate it.
If you have to choose between buying a small indie game and a big AAA game, buy the first and pirate the other.
Honestly with movies it's even more stupid, because as soon as you exit the circle of big Hollywood stuff, if you want to watch something that isn't Avengers or Jaws, you start to get into the territory of: No streaming service has it and the used dvd on Amazon is 400$ with no subtitles.
That is my main area of interest since i like movies more than games, and that's an area where piracy is genuinely preserving art better than rights holders.
All of this is in Minecraft of course, i have never broken the law and do not advocate for anyone to do so!
