It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
I 100% support the writers strike and I want them to make more money. I don’t pirate content to avoid paying; I do it because the studios make it so damn hard to get their content legitimately.
As Gabe Newell said, “Piracy isn’t a price issue, it’s a service issue.” I would love to pay for the content but I’m not going to manage 15 different services to do so. Not to mention geoblocking and region specific content make it impossible to get some content even if you pay for every service. Nope, I’ll just download it all and enjoy it all in one place; the fact that it’s free is just a nice sideffect. If there was a paid service that did the same I would happily pay for it. As it is I haven’t pirated a single videogame since I started using Steam over a decade ago because I can just get everything I want there.
Not to mention the potential privacy issues that come with registering for so many of these services, which often also bank on selling user data.