Sadly, catchy slogans don't hold up in court. Better to buy from distributors who don't try to make that claim, like GOG - even if they won't put Nine Sols on the store to avoid offending many gamers.

No crime where’s no judge.

Sadly, catchy slogans don’t hold up in court.

Idk, OJ floated by on his.

I’ve heard the argument that if you aren’t pirating via torrent but simply downloading a file (no seeding), there really aren’t any damages that can be claimed aside from the price of the thing you’ve pirated, hence completely not worth any action. The danger is if you’re uploading stuff you can be on the hook based on the number of downloads of that file.

I think that’s largely true in the US, at least.

There’s a technical aspect to it too. Downloading over HTTPS covers your butt in a way that you need a good VPN for if torrenting.

What do you mean by gog offending gamers by selling nine sols? Is it because it’s the same dev as devotion? Or some other reason?

You got it.

we don’t need to resolt to piracy just to have our digital ownership

no, but it’s morally acceptable to pirate things released by hostile corporations

I suppose, but I don’t think that piracy is the true answer, and we should instead be fighting more for digital independence instead of piracy

2 things can be done at the same time just like 2 things can be true at the same time

Piracy isn’t stealing either way. It’s just copyright infringement.

Soon the game files will be on the cloud and the client on your computer is just a launcher. Then piracy will be over as well

They tried that (Google stadia), performance is crap. They need a datacenter with beefy GPUs need everyone to keep latency low, so the infrastructure costs aren’t worth it.

Unless it’s the only option and they raise the prices. Then you either play Indy games which will resist and still send you the files or if you want AAA you accept the new normal.

I already only play Indies, so we’ll be safe for a while