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| Topic | Is pirating video games "stealing"? |
| Anteaterking 11/24/19 5:55:05 PM #72: | SailorGoon posted... It's not the equivalent since again: these publishers aren't revoking their rights/ownership. It is not akin to dumpster diving. If anything it's closer to what I referenced: grave robbing. You've essentially just restated your opinion. Pre-digital era (and even still now), publishers frequently disposed of excess physical copies of cartridges/cd-roms when they decided they were no longer going to be selling them. If you went dumpster diving sans trespassing for one of those cartridges, you would now own a copy of the game, but that would not revoke the rights/ownership of the publisher to that intellectual property. The comparison to grave robbing is ridiculous. Robbing a grave is more akin to robbing a home. Things in graves aren't "abandoned" there, they're put in that grave for an express purpose with intent to stay there. Abandoning your software isn't the same thing, it's much closer to shipping your trash that you see no more value to. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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