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-ness
EDIT: also wow, 12 years ago
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.
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.
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.
You mean that this company is reselling their original product on a x86 Linux system with a emulator? Which are actually pre-installed ripped ROMs on them?
well if you want to support directly an artist almost all of them have a bandcamp page
