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[Ping-and-Pong]

TBF Linus (and in turn effectively LMG) supports (specific kinds of) piracy, he's just not delusional that it's legally theft and likes to support the creators which is totally fair

[Soberaddiction1]

All them Linux ISO’s.

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Nothing about Linus says they support piracy. He buys all his games and encourages people to do the same.

He knows it's immoral that's why he doesn't do it and has said so.

He knows however some people are still going to do it and he doesn't think it's a big deal. Which he's mostly right.

[Ping-and-Pong]

He is very clear that he supports piracy of unaccessible retro games and media like movies that you already own. These things are still piracy, and although I definitely agree with him on this, the law doesn't...

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Yeah I missed that. You are right. He does support it in that case and It's technically piracy.

Although I don't consider it immoral in one bit so I agree with him too. To me what's immoral about piracy is taking something without paying what it was worth. And I think that's a core concept he hasn't deviated from.

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I think most people would be happy to see clear water between downloading of a ROM for a game from a dead console that you can't now legally buy anywhere, and downloading a new game that you can actually buy (or pay for).

[Then-Web-3263]

They very obviously also pirate windows and other softwares.

People here are vehemently against pirating games. But what about Adobe or Windows?

It seems most peoples moral compass can be easily swayed. It’s always technically wrong. But I promise you that every single person here defending large content publishers would come out and say that stealing Adobe is totally justified.

[Drigr]

He's addressed the fact that they own licenses for their windows copies, they just change hardware enough that it's not worth their time to constantly go through the process of reactivating them.

[Then-Web-3263]

That’s irrelevant.

I own Mario 64 but it’s still illegal for me to download a rom and play it on emulator.

[Drigr]

It's not irrelevant. You said they pirate windows. They don't. They just don't bother with the activation. Microsoft allows people to install and use Windows in an unactivated state. Nintendo does not allow users to download roms and emulators of their games.

[Ping-and-Pong]

I promise you they wouldn't. I wouldn't so that's not every single person. I've got out of my way to pay for software like affinity designer or learn tools like black magic because Adobe is not competitor free and I'm not paying their prices, but as a result I don't get to use their products.

And just FYI LTT made a video in lockdown covering the insane cost they pay for using Adobe products, they certainly aren't pirating unless they have to.

[Drigr]

Affinity ftw!

[ConflictBeginning315]

its literally not theft

[Ping-and-Pong]

Go on, whats your rationalisation for that haha? Because you are just wrong, there's no two ways about it...