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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's probably worth pirating games just to test play them before buying the good ones for online play

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's also great to check if my aging pc is even capable of running it somewhat smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can just return steam games within 2 hrs tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

True, which again brings us back to "piracy is a service problem" which imho it totally is. I never pirate steam games.