They really aren’t. The labor that went into it is already paid in full, even if what the labor created earns for another 20 years, that labor won’t see another dime for it. Can’t steal what isn’t there
It can happen in artistic fields like acting and game dev.
Fun fact: In game dev, at least, your initial payment to make a game is typically an advance on the share of the profits you’ll get. So terms like “$100k to start and then 10%” function more like “10% to a minimum of $100k” in the long term.
Sure, a court would charge you with different crimes, but the concept is the concept and a forum post is not court.
I prayed shit all the time when I couldn’t afford it. When I got money, I eventually rebuilt a lot of those games for convenience’s sake. Comics, not so much, but I have thousands upon thousands of them.
I did it because I couldn’t afford it. If you take something that is being sold, without paying for it, how is that concept not stealing?
The boss pays me for my time, I’m never getting that time back so I’ve sold it and they own it, in fact, they even get to keep the work I produced during that time to go with it.
No but you’re stealing the labor of others who did make it.
They really aren’t. The labor that went into it is already paid in full, even if what the labor created earns for another 20 years, that labor won’t see another dime for it. Can’t steal what isn’t there
It can happen in artistic fields like acting and game dev.
Fun fact: In game dev, at least, your initial payment to make a game is typically an advance on the share of the profits you’ll get. So terms like “$100k to start and then 10%” function more like “10% to a minimum of $100k” in the long term.
Buddy, read the room. You’re not changing anyone’s minds by following me from other posts.
I see this a lot on Lemmy. Smaller communities. The human trolls are funnier and sadder.
The money I would pay to study some of them like a bug…
You mean with a magnifying glass and some sunlight? 🙊
Oooooh good idea. What’s your hypothesis, good person?
No, the people who made it got paid. Their labor was compensated by their employer.
Oh no, not the poor greedy executives!? Noooooooooo
How’s that corporate cock tasting these days?
Understanding basic concepts is not sucking corporate cock lmao
You can be honest about piracy man. It’s ok.
Now I get your username. SCB = sucking corporate boner
It’s actually shorthand for Smooth Cocoa Butter.
Not the place for soapboxing
“saying true things” is not “soapboxing.”
I’ve probably pirated more total tb than half the people here, but have the intellectual honesty to own what you’re doing.
Your right taking a topic to a place that is not talking about that thing is.
You’re good at intellectual property rights violations. You broke the law. And yet, you did not steal .
Sure, a court would charge you with different crimes, but the concept is the concept and a forum post is not court.
I prayed shit all the time when I couldn’t afford it. When I got money, I eventually rebuilt a lot of those games for convenience’s sake. Comics, not so much, but I have thousands upon thousands of them.
I did it because I couldn’t afford it. If you take something that is being sold, without paying for it, how is that concept not stealing?
Bro you can’t be helped
I am aware that we disagree.
The boss pays me for my time, I’m never getting that time back so I’ve sold it and they own it, in fact, they even get to keep the work I produced during that time to go with it.
Low effort argument.
I’m with you here. My up vote won’t help much, but you’re spot on. This thread is so strange.