dbot said:
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. |
It's not wrong - it just operates under the assumption that "legality" and "morality" are not necessarily equivalent.
If you can't operate under that assumption then participating in this conversation is impossible.
