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Good observation, never thought of it. It's like some people already said: if libraries came after copyright they would say it's communism and publishers would sue everyone

you own the content

Unfortunately you don’t (if US)

Many years back , a friend was a manager of a game shop. They let me bring in badly scarred discs of movies and PS1/2 games, pay a very small fee (I want to say like $1/disc?) to get a brand new copy of the disc as replacement. Was a service that was available to resell shops apparently, though she mentioned that it also has a subscription aspect that likely placed it well out of reach of mortals.

I'd even be fine with mildly increased cost on something like that for regular consumers, but alas no....

I think downloading a crack for a game you paid for should be covered under "right to repair" laws.

for that particular copy

I think it's a different version of s movie that's important. If you bought the director's cut but downloaded the cinematic version then you technically don't have a license for that.

You wouldn't shutter a studio that produced a critically acclaimed game and then tell your remaining employees they need to make more games like that one.

I literally picked this up on Xbox 360 recently. It's incredible.

Most people download things because they want it for free

Which is the original point of IP such as copyright in the first place, to create a robust public domain. We have Mr. Disney to thank for repurposing our IP laws to lock up content so that we plebs can never enjoy anything without paying for it.

Most artists are more interested in their work getting experienced than getting paid each time, but its the industrialists and the ownership class who profits the most (by far) by locking things down, and even they are glad to circumvent licensing for convenience. It appears we all know it's a top-side racket.

Download that bear!

I guess I mostly agree, though, I disagree that it isn't acknowledged. From what I see, piracy oftentimes is explicitly precisely just because people want something for free (myself included tee-hee).

The preservation argument has gotten a lot more prevalent, and I agree that there are a lot of people who use that as a justification for pirating while not actually working to preserve the media they pirate, but I at least see far more people who don't justify it at all. Not that they have to, IMHO.

Nobody owns all the thousands of games available for their emulators or thousands of blu-rays

And companies fail to acknowledge that not every download is a lost sale. The people who have downloaded thousands of games for their emulators would not have purchased those thousands of games if emulation wasn't available.

people who just indiscriminately download everything available

Case in point. Just because they're downloading it "because it's free" doesn't mean they were going to purchase "everything available" but find it all for free instead. They are likely not even consuming most of it anyway, and just collecting.

It is absurd that Nintendo will spend money to shut down a webpage hosting "Zelda 2: The Adventures of Link" when that's not something they will ever sell again. Someone pirating Baldur's Gate 3 because they don't want to pay for it doesn't change the absurdity of keeping a stranglehold on a 37 year old game.

The fuck I wouldn't.

I see this link posted everywhere for weeks now but like, I've never been able to use it. The US version of it recommends the DGCCRF which is exclusive to France or visitors thereof. It's weird that it doesn't recommend a US branch or have the FTC section at the top

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dZBeRl2CVI4l2spEa3M_mePXUNt42a4U/view