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This is dumb. How is pirating an indie game ethically any different from pirating a non-indie game?
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If you pirate World Of Goo you are taking money away from two people who spent years making a game and publishing it themselves - they profit directly from sales.
If you pirate Battlefield 3 the developers are paid by the publisher once the game is finished - after that, the publisher takes all the money and the creators see none of it.
EDIT: And I wouldn't say
never pirate something indie, I just don't like to as a rule of thumb. I pirated Minecraft back in the day because there wasn't a demo for it (besides that crappy Classic thing on the website). I have since bought it, but I really didn't know if I'd like it and didn't wanna spend £12 on something I might not end up enjoying. Yes its a flawed argument but whatever. Notch ended up the winner anyway, because it went from Alpha to Beta while I was playing with my torrented copy, meaning I had to pay 2x as much.