Pirating is of course immoral renting is fine and lending is fine too. If someone takes you on a ride with his car to next town is that immoral because the train Company lost a ticket they could have sold ?
But I would have a question to you all I am curios what you will answer:
If someone pirated a game it is immoral of course. But if this person wouldnt have any money and never intended to buy this game/software anyway. And didnt distributed the software to other people. Would that be immoraly ?
I mean everyone would say yes. But infact the Company lost nothing the person wouldn`t have bought the game/software anyway. The person did not harm anyone (in the reality) and he gained. Infact someone has won and none has lost really.
Its like reading a newspaper which lied on a park bench.
Ofcourse its illegal but is this really immoraly ? Its a profit for the world in an utilitarian way.
Its impossible to judge this from outside. It couldnt be used as a practical way. But if we take this as a fact the person would never be able to buy this game and has not provided copies to other people would this be immoral ? Illegal yes but immoral I think of poor kids in third or second World Countries. And yes some of them have old Electronics which is seen as trash in Europe or America. I am not talking about the really poor people. But is a Windows 98 Copy in Africa on a 10 year old PC really immoral. Or PS1-2 Games which maybe are one of the last pleasures of (middle) poor kids is. Or just someone wo has copied a game which he never would have rented or bought is this immoral ?
Is copying a older game as immoral as copying a new one ( The company would have lost more money because the software value decreases as time goes on)
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