Metaright

Alternative take: Piracy is, at worst, morally neutral, and does not have a significant adverse effect on the profits of the people who produce media.

Calm down.

It’s so cute!

I think I’d rather not give the company money at all.

Paying for her cab fare home sounds reasonably polite.

Elaborate.

That’s not great, but I don’t think it would be utterly terrible.

I honestly can’t really imagine anyone digging out a multitude of old consoles just to be able to play one or two titles each. If you want to play older games, surely emulation is the only feasible option for the vast majority of people.

Also, thanks for pasting the full text here!

I suspect your story is not unusual. Piracy is, at worst, a morally neutral action.

Oh, that person was definitely insulting people and accusing them of addiction, and it wasn’t cool at all. I just think the whole “let people enjoy things” retort is ridiculous and overdone.

I see. My apologies for misunderstanding you.

More clarification would be helpful, I agree.

the same way each other digital storefront does

I’m not sure if I’m understanding you correctly, but “everyone else is doing evil too” is not an incredibly effective defense against doing evil.

Rights are not a purely legal concept. You can have rights that are not codified by law.

How about letting people enjoy things?

How is this person’s criticism preventing you from enjoying things?

I bet the Deck has a lot to do with this.

I agree, human.

I append “site:Reddit.com” (I know, I know) to basically every search I perform. It’s the only reliable way at this point to see things written genuinely by real people.

To be honest, I would be really tempted to do this if I could afford it and guarantee that it would kickstart a YouTube career.

How would that possibly work?

Pay $44 billion for a brand

Literally destroy the brand

This is more baffling than accidentally destroying the brand, like he’s been doing.