• warm@kbin.earth
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    19 days ago

    So instead of “Did you pirate this game?”, the question should be “Did you pirate this game, responsibly?”

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      18 days ago

      Sure, that works too.

      I could think of of plenty examples, but a good use for pirating would be Disco Elysium - the publishers stole the IP of the creators unjustly, so it would be cobsidered by many ethical to not purchase the game and instead pirate it and donate a comfortable amount to the actual creators patreons. You are actuallu combating theft, in this instance.

      But of course it would not be responsible to pirate most indie games

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      18 days ago

      Putting aside the massive ethical and legal implications of blatantly exploiting human culture and works in the name of corporate profits…

      I really hope they aren’t expecting us mere mortals to pay for AI generated games and media.

      Because if I end up losing my job to a robot that was trained on my own stolen words, images, code and sounds, paying $70 for some slop is right down at the bottom of the list of things I want to do.