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[–] [email protected] 263 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Want to know what I used to pirate, but don't anymore? Video games. Steam makes tons of money off of me and everybody else and has reasonable DRM with an easy to use store.

Piracy is a delivery problem. Make content easier to get for reasonable prices and you'll make money. Don't do that? OK. Piracy it is.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Worse, the harder they try to stop it, the shittier the experience gets for their paying customers, but not for the pirates really. At that point, why would anyone want to pay for a crappy experience being treated like a thief when you can save your money and actually be a "thief" (at least in their eyes) while being treated like a paying customer?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Muffins? How do you know?

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