When I learned to smoke fish on the BBQ, I invited my family over, and my sister asked for a second serving.

When your hacked together CPAP sends asbestos directly into your lungs because Bob from maintenance had some spare time to fix it, you’ll be crying about malpractice.

I kind of disagree. Medical devices should be repaired by trained professionals using OEM parts only.

How’d you feel if your pacemaker’s battery started leaking acid into your body because Kevin from accounting had made a diy drone once and he found a good deal on AliExpress specials batteries.

Of course, that means manufacturers should be liable for any issues wrt lack of parts or available repairman.

And even better: people not valve will actually go and work to make the games that aren’t compatible working. For free.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Replace ‘software’ by w/et placeholder thing

And yet, you’ve spent countless paragraphs justifying how it’s ok for you to be a leech

It’s not elegant when it causes more problems than it solves.

So what you’re telling me is that it’s useful when the software you use is made by absolute idiots?

My favorite take in this thread was a guy saying that two months after release all the artists etc are paid off therefore piracy is ok lmao

Oh, I feel pretty good about myself all of the time. I find life rather enjoyable, as I do not need to write down 45 paragraphs in order to justify some sort of shitty behavior like you need to.

Furthermore, you growing fruit takes resources and time.

Meanwhile, artistic creation just happens.

Lmao you’re such a leech. Only a leech believes art takes no effort and no time. This single line in your entire argument demonstrates that you do not value creativity, and therefore you think you aren’t required to pay your share.

In other words, you’re a leech.

Oh my god you are denser than a box of rocks.

The fruits are basically infinite as long as the tree stands. In fact, I throw many of the fruits away every year because I can’t sell them fast enough. The fruits are accessory to the argument.

In one instance you say that someone makes enough money therefore there’s no need to reward them further for their work, in the other you say wait no that’s different because bullshit reasons.

Just say you’re ok with stifling creative people because you don’t believe the deserve to live off of their hard work.

The fruits themselves are an accessory to my argument, the fact you chose to criticize this minute detail, and not the actual argument (you deciding that someone has made enough money and therefore it’s ok to enjoy the fruits of their labor for free) is quite telling.

I have an orchard full of mirabelle plum trees. I keep some of the production for personal consumption and to hand out to friends and family, and sell the rest.

On average, I make back all the money invested in tools and other farming products halfway through the gathering season.

According to you, it’s ok if someone comes and steal my fruit after that then?

Imagine calling someone else a leech when you are literally promoting theft because you have decided that after an arbitrary amount of time (2 months, apparently), it’s all paid for.

I buy games because it’s the right thing to do. Not because I am afraid.

Most people have a hard time swallowing the fact that they’re nothing but bottom tier leeches.

And when you call it piracy, some turbo nerds come out of the woodwork to claim it’s not piracy because piracy implies theft

In the end, anyone who’s not a low tier troll knows exactly the meaning of theft in the context of content creation.

IP theft isn’t a thought crime, though.

No, but I understand how free content distribution works.