>>19051302just because the cost of reproducing digital items is practically zero doesn't mean that the manufacturers of those items won't lose their money if someone would "duplicate" their stuff, every pirated copy of a videogame is a copy that could've been bought instead and we buy and use videogames not to just own them like some display piece or to just consume them once and dispose them afterwards but we use videogames to extract some intellectual benefits from experiencing them, intellectual property is even more illusive than some real physical property but it doesn't mean that you should straight up steal and appropriate someone's intellectual work to yourself just because no one is guarding it and just because entertainment is subjective and most of the time being consumed by our minds and not our bodies doesn't mean that it should be free, you don't just break into a cinema room without buying any tickets because "ughh the movies are not real so they have an infinite stock of them, it wouldn't hurt if i don't pay for a ticket, someone else would and that will cut their loses and stuff", that's literally gorilla nigger behaviour and i think we can all agree on that, so why should videogames be an exception
