| ▲ | b65e8bee43c2ed0 an hour ago |
| >they sound great in theory, but in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the studio will say "well, never doing that again". fyi, there are tens of torrent trackers with every game/movie/album/etc under the sun. had been for two decades. |
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| ▲ | john_strinlai 43 minutes ago | parent [-] |
| i was unaware torrenting copyrighted content was made legal, thanks for the update |
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| ▲ | b65e8bee43c2ed0 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | >they sound great in theory, but in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the studio will say "well, never doing that again". | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | | yes, i wrote that. right now that would be illegal to do in most jurisdictions. | | |
| ▲ | b65e8bee43c2ed0 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | | despite that, people have been doing that for over two decades, but publishers continue to publish. | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | right. that is because most people would rather buy the game than take the risk of downloading it illegally. if you remove the risk, the math changes. publishers also have legal recourse. remove that and the publisher's math changes. | | |
| ▲ | b65e8bee43c2ed0 11 minutes ago | parent [-] | | people pay for convenience. when was the last time you heard about someone being prosecuted for pirating something? |
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