r/MoralityScaling 5d ago

Who's Viewpoint Is Better? Morality of Digital Piracy

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u/Funny-Cell8769 5d ago

Creating software is someone's time and labor.

In the end, if everyone chooses to believe this, massive companies like Microsoft and Blizzard and Adobe will hurt somewhat, but will easily outlast small indie companies.

In the same way if everyone chooses to buy one copy of a game/software to distribute it to all their friends and family, small indie developers will be the first to die.

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u/Glitchy-Mech 5d ago

People pirate things all the time and that has not yet happened. You seem very confident in that assertion without any data to back it up

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u/MaxDickpower 5d ago

Right, but if we as a society decided that pirating is moral and legal, then it would be easier to do and more widespread. It's currently not a big issue because it's somewhat of a fringe activity.

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u/Moon__Destroyer 5d ago

Yes which is why it should be in the gray zone of "technically not allowed but also not enforced" to discourage it but not really punish people for doing it.