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Yes. Next stupid question.

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yes but why is probably the bulk of it…

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Short answer: Yes.

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Longer answer: easily yes.

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Medium answer: you bet.

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Profane answer: heck yes

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Can proprietary software be justified?

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I am not stealing. It’s there, I take it and it’s still there. Don’t know why these posts keep popping up in piracy communities. Same plague was there on reddit too. Like seriously it’s 2025.

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Its almost like you think pirating something has no effect on anything.

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Not really. I know it can change from people to people. But I personally would have bought it in the first place if I wanted to.

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What’s the justification for not allowing me to make a copy? Those who decry piracy call it theft, but it’s not theft since they aren’t losing anything. Not a physical product they could run out of, nor a potential sale as has been shown time and time again; people who pirate a thing generally wouldn’t have purchased the thing anyway.

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This is the only correct answer.

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