• magnetosphere@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t pirate indie games, small-budget movies, or music from unknown bands. I hurt major corporations specifically.

          • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            You misunderstood. I meant that piracy is literally how many of games were saved. GOG started because some guys stockpiled pirated copies of games, then cracked and/or reversed engineered them to work on modern PCs. Eventually, they got the rights to sell some legally and GOG.com was born.

            My point was that piracy isn’t always bad because companies have no incentive to preserve their products after they’ve stopped selling. (See vintage ROMs)