[Phylum]

Everything I have said hinges on my belief that if you don't own something, or a legal licence for that thing, then you shouldn't have/experience/whatever it. I'm sorry if I needed to make that clearer?


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As far as the book thing goes, I like how you think you can magically judge the quality of an entire book by reading the first few pages in store YOU CAN'T. Is that any different to watching someone play the first few minutes of a game? Of reading reviews and looking at screenshots? Of possibly even playing a demo?

The point of my post wasn't as much to define why piracy is good or bad, as much as to show you that justifying it through quality assurance isn't adequate. There are other ways to look at the quality of something. It won't always be spot on. Sometimes you'll buy a lightbulb and it won't work - you can't go and steal the lightbulb to personally test it.