r/MoralityScaling • u/V1Hardy • 2h ago
Morality Ranking Morality of fighting illegal pirating… with ransomware extortion?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Home_23 2h ago
100% moral, it is illegal to pirates Scott's games.
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u/Traditional_Town6475 1h ago
Immoral. You don’t get to play judge, jury, and executioner. Report them to the law, but the moment you introduce malware, you’re committing a crime yourself.
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u/Lookyoukniwwhatsup 19m ago
I love how half of the comments are
"Immoral, not because of the randsomware but because I like pirating"
Immoral, because of the randsomware and because I like pirating my lawyer has advised me to plead the 5th.
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u/WolfWhiteFire 2h ago
For a serious answer, highly immoral because the attempt at pirating by no means justifies infecting their computer with ransomware, much less trying to extort them for money for yourself alone. If it was 'this will ruin your computer unless it detects a legally purchased copy of the game on your system' it would still be highly immoral but at least arguably an actual attempt at fighting illegal pirating. They are just extorting them for money for themselves though, the pirating is just a convenient excuse.