Taking a product from the shop without paying and returning the item later is still stealing.
The issue here is that there is a period of time where the shop does not have the item.
CileTheSane
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making digital backups
So you're in favour of digital ownership then?
Digital backups of my Steam games exist on torrents. If Steam ever becomes shitty like this I can stop purchasing from them and reacquire it from the Jolly Roger.
YouTube has been running a successful awareness campaign for those that didn't know about Adblockers.
I hope you’re right, but I wouldn’t be so confident in that. As time goes on, and they bake more of the DRM into the hardware directly, it’ll be harder to circumvent (for the common person at the very least).
This is talking about a Fires TV: TV shows and movies. I've yet to experience a streaming service with required hardware and baked in DRM.
For example, the Sony PlayStation used to be very hackable, now it’s not (last time I checked).
PS1 required acquiring a physical chip and making physical changes to the device. PS5 can be jail-broken through software alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSJ8DKijRzA
The point I was trying to make is that at some point it’ll be impossible or nearly impossible to do piracy
Piracy has always been illegal, and has always happened anyway. There is no way to make it impossible. Even Denuvo, the currently best anti-piracy measure, can be cracked and makes the experience worse for paying customers.
you need to fight by other ways than just piracy, like getting the right laws passed.
I don't live in the country that needs to pass those laws.
(Piracy means you are not giving these shitty services your money. Actively not supporting them.)
If someone could explain to me why that comment is getting downvotes?
It's absurd. You've strained the metaphor by pushing it too far and it makes no sense.
- The boiling frog analogy has nothing to do with predators. Predators do not put live frogs in pots of slowly heating water.
- How exactly do you think ads are going to be forced on people who pirate their media?
- Telling people "stop giving money to trashy companies" is looking out for them. When companies get too greedy and start being shitty towards paying customers, the reaction absolutely should be "we're going to pirate it instead" so that these practices actively hurt profits.
You're right! People should stand against this NOW by not paying for these shitty services!
Wait a minute...
I have several games on Steam that I've "played" for less than an hour but have most of the achievements for because I've purchased it after finishing a pirated copy.
You can't really "steal" services, even though they sometimes call it that.
If you hire me to paint your portrait and then don't pay me you have stolen my labour. I have given my time and effort and have not been reimbursed for it.
If you paid me and then gave your neighbour a copy of your portrait then you have not stolen my labour.
What would you call it if you buy a piece of art and hang it on your wall, then a couple months later the company that sold you the art comes into your home, takes the art away, and says you don't own it anymore?
If enough companies do that people are going to stop paying for art.