No, it’s not like stealing a physical item from a store.

“stealing” a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you’re stealing from a store is infinitely copyable. Like the replicator from star trek…or that one episode of Sabrina the teenage witch with that box that can make a perfect copy of everything you put inside of it.

Of course I personally would never pirate anything, no matter how much streaming services increase their prices or how much they crack down on VPN usage to get around geo-restrictions, PIRACY IS BAD AND ONLY BAD PEOPLE DO IT.

I’ve never pirated anything in my whole life!

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    13 hours ago

    Except there are people who buy something AND want to have offline backup copies of it.

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      2 hours ago

      Do you think that is the majority of people pirating? Hell do you even think it’s 10%?

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          Hey just a quick note that I didn’t mean to say “how do you even think” I was using voice text I meant to say “hell…”

          The other seems far more antagonistic lol

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      6 hours ago

      Of course. When people need to save money and have to consider what expense to cut away. People need something to tend to.