This message showed when I entered the serial specifically made for pirates. Right now feeling nothing but respect for plugin devs. Next month Imma buy this plugin 100% fixed, need it or don’t need it doesn’t matter anymore lol.

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    2 years ago

    Big brain move, getting you to acknowledge that you’re pirating for when the lawsuit comes.

    More people need to accept that piracy helps sales in the end, not take sales.

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        The caveat is that it has to be easy for people to find it and buy it without jumping through hoops. If you gotta jump through hoops just to buy it, you might as well jump through hoops and get it for free.

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          There will also be people who abuse it for nefarious means as well. Even if purchasing is easy.

          They of course use these 2% to justify vilifying the rest though.

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          Reminds me of everyone pirating the Mass Effect trilogy through 2015 until the remaster released because it was literally the only way to get all three games, with all of the dlc.

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        I really don’t think this is true though, the cost of piracy is severely low when compared to buying it, I can see myself downloading some shit games just to play them for 15-30 minutes but I’d never buy them.

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          True. I would never pay for AC Rogue, and after having completed the game, I can justify that decision. To me, it felt lile Black Flag but worse. Could I justify but I Black Flag on Steam, after already paying for it on PS4? Yes. Could I justify any purchase of Rogue? No, none.

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            Arguably if you completed the entire game, the purchase would be justified

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              I completed it because I started it (and it’s a shorter game), not because I was actually invested. I’ve played Black Flag 3 times, I’ve paid for it once, and would both replay it and pay for it again. I’ve played Rogue once, and I have no intention of replaying or paying for it.

              Its about justifying it to myself. I’m not rich and don’t really have disposable income for games.

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          If those games had demos would you still pirate the full game to only play a small portion?

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            I don’t really understand what it has to do with buying the game but yeah I probably would since I’d rather have the unlimited experience in case the game is halfway decent.

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        2 years ago

        Can’t say you didn’t know the key was pirated when you bought it off kijiji if there’s this warning.

        It removes a potential defence, it’s not for them to admit any evidence, it’s to destroy your rebuttals.

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          How can they sue you if they literally say they don’t oppose the use of this pirated serial and it’s okay to do and the software will continue working?

          If anything if you agree to this you can sue them if they ever disable this key because they agreed to accept it.

          Do you even know how contracts/agreements work?

          • schmidtster@lemmy.world
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            Do you really think this is a contract or agreement of legal enforceability? Holy hell.

            If they actually used this for that reason it would be to merely remove your defense of saying you didn’t know you bought a pirated copy. They don’t even need you to agree to it, a splash screen would be enough.

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              Look up the legal principle of estoppel. In general you can’t turn around and sue someone for doing something after informing them (in writing no less) that you’re okay with it, even if you would otherwise have had a valid basis to sue.

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      Kind of debatable depending on the floor price but not bad an idea either way, it’s all about margins and looking to let yourself understand how much your product is really worth to the customer vs simple market cost