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Also, I don't consider "not wanting to part with cash unless it’s a “safe bet”" a bad thing. It's nothing bad, a perfectly sane behavior.
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Yeah but it can be mediated in so many ways that aren’t illegal – like I said, there are professional reviews, video previews, full playthroughs and LPs, you can ask friends’ opinions or borrow games from people, or you can even search opinion on forums and social media. It’s not difficult to work out if you’re gonna like a game before playing it.
The idea of “I don’t know if I’ll enjoy this game so I’ll pirate a full copy of it first” completely takes away any control the creator had over their intellectual property and places far too much faith on the idea that a person will go back and pay for it out of a sense of fairness. That’s not how any transaction should work, except when the creator only asks for donations for a free game.
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What about my point about the people who upload the games in the first place, though?
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As a group who actively strip out DRM and anti-piracy measures and then allow people to download the game for free, I’d say they’re probably unlikely to be in the moral high ground here. Makes the moral argument in favor a bit less secure if you ask me.
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It's boring because people are saying exactly the same things as they did last time we discussed this.
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There are also new points being raised.