They denuvo the shit out of their games, so it’s actually pretty hard to pirate them nowadays.

Lemmy.world is about a year old. It definitely wasn’t two years ago.

Present day with 2005 desktop.

Which of course makes no sense - if you don’t have the money to buy it either way, pirating has no effect on revenue.

Ah, Gaben’s “piracy is a service issue.”

The only time I see piracy as unethical is if you would have paid for it otherwise and it’s a small creator who will actually notice the lesser revenue. This covers very, VERY few cases because the vast majority of the time if something is good enough to want to pirate it, it’s popular enough that more than enough people paid for it to adequately compensate the creator.

Basically, are you hurting the creator’s ability to make a living by pirating it? Giving them less money when they already have more than enough doesn’t qualify.

You wouldn’t download a Rick and Morty meme

It may be copyright infringement, but not stealing.

I am Groot!

And I hate them to this day - unless they’re part of a sauce or something.