contestgamer said:
wow, what the heck did a pirate ever do to you? Calm down. Piracy saves people a ton of money, they can play a bunch of games they couldnt otherwise afford. Cut em some slack. |
Could just as well say, what did tax evasion ever do to you? People that evade taxes save a ton of money, and they can enjoy it on a lot of stuff they couldn't otherwise afford. Yet they do make taxes worse for people overall.
Software I've worked on did get pirated. Result not only loss of income, also anti piracy measures that were a pita during development and slowed down the software somewhat due to working with encrypted data. Nvm inconveniencing legitimate customers.
It's simple if everyone pirated software / evaded taxes the industry / society would collapse. Why should legitimate buyers subsidize pirates?







