SamuelRSmith on 17 June 2013
| kitler53 said: a pirated game is stolen. a purchased game is your property. |
If a purchased game is your property, should you be able to do what you want with it? Like, you know, chuck a rip of it onto a torrent site? You just said it was your property.
Theft isn't a thing in the digital world. It applies to the physical world because goods are scarce and when you have an apple, I can't have the same apple. You can give the apple, or we can trade for the apple, or I can steal it from you. Either way, I end up plus one apple, you end up minus one apple. This isn't true for digital and other non-scarce goods. When you and I trade ideas, we each have two ideas.
