Which is moraly (not legaly) worse? Secondhand _ Pirating _ Renting_Lending

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Khuutra said:

dbot said:

welshbloke said:
I predicted this would disolve into a war of terminolgy it always does. The Pirate hides behind the theft argument every time. The original discussion was about morals and as I said society decrees it immoral. Argue all you want but getting something for nothing because you cannot or do not want to pay for it, it does not make it moral. Argue all you want about the symantics of what you consider theft to be, it does not make taking something that is not yours to take right.

Well said.  You can call it theft, or piracy it is still a crime.

Legality has nothing to do with this discussion, as outlined in the thread title.

The thread title is flawed.  Pirating is illegal whereas lending, renting, and used game sales hurt the industry but are perfectly legal.  Morality is the judgement of the difference between right and wrong.  Clearly committing a crime would be worse than not.  If we were to pretend that pirating is not a crime, then they are all essentially equal in terms of harm to the games industry.  Pirating would still be slightly worse, because only one copy of the game would need to be legally purchased for the copying to occur.