I wrote this a long time ago, but I think it’s still pertinent
it is hard to make sense of ethics in a world that is wrong
especially when the ones enforcing ethics are the same ones contributing to this wrong-nessEDIT: also wow, 12 years ago
I’ve been at this a long time 😅
Old games & ROMs can only still be played and retrieved due to piracy. Otherwise most of these kind of games will no longer be here. And soon archive.org will kill themselves due to all the e-book and software drama… And we end up with nothing, the future generation will no longer have access to all those files, games from the 80, 90, 00’s etc.
And the video games industry can give a single fuck less about preserving them. Only bringing them back for a limited time under reselling compilations or as we’ve seen, those small consoles a few years back where only a hand picked library of games were pre-installed on them. They’re only brought out to simply make a quick buck, nothing more.
Thanks! I was looking for something like this 👍
if so, then check the other posts in that series.
It’s YOUR DUCKING SACRED MORAL DUTY TO PIRATE AND PRESERVE EVERYTHING GOOD THAT YOU CAN FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS. ONLY YOU CAN SAVE HUMANITY’S LEGACY
In a perfect world, every dollar we spend goes right to the creators who made the creation.
I would support musicians more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they aren’t, so I pirate out of spite against the labels for robbing the musicians through contract, how much they get.
I would support movies more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they aren’t, so I buy movies second-hand from thrift stores and not the studios themselves.
I would support games much more if I knew my money was going straight to them. But a lot of the time, they mostly aren’t. So I buy games dirt cheap and occasionally pirate.
In a perfect world, every dollar we spend goes right to the creators who made the creation.
In a perfect world, shit’s created without someone having to create it to make money. A market without middlemen is still a market.
stallman had something like the most ethical thing to is use free sofware and its less ethical to not pay for non-free software but it is least ethical to pay for non-free software. or something to that effect.
Take what you can’t afford, support what you can, share if you dare, and do not trade for money.
Corporations steal from us all the time, and they don’t even let us buy their content, they only sell limited access that can be revoked at any time (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/9531016 or https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12904663). Under these circumstances, there are no ethical issues with piracy.
I find it interesting that you end with the benefits of free to play games since those tend to be heavy on micro transactions, or over powered purchasable gear. Do you not worry that the transition to free to play games will also usher in an era of incomplete until packages are purchased games?
This is already happening even with Aaa games. The initial purchase doesn’t seem to stop them anyway.
And no I don’t worry about it. I think if there’s motivation we’ll figure out the way. People won’t just ship making or playing good games.
The true piracy is when people label it “piracy” in the first place. They are hijacking a loaded word in a transparent attempt to make normal activity sound wrong before we’re even allowed to talk about it.
That hijack is one of their worst blunders though as pirates are very romanticized in culture. They just made us look way cooler than the computer nerds we are.
