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Is it ethical to pirate a game to try it, and buy a license later? (lemmus.org)

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My issue is the license part. If I can't own the installer files then it really doesn't seem right anyways.

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[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Whenever I'm in situations like this, I think back to my days in high school when I had a CD collection that was worth several thousand dollars. Each of those CDs cost 10 or $15, and for each one that I purchased, the original artist got a few cents.

It was all a giant f****** scam to get the record companies rich. The record companies owe me for that, but they're never going to pay up, and ethically, I don't feel like I owe them another cent, nor will I for the rest of my life.

Of course the gaming industry is not quite the same, but in some ways it is quite similar.

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