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The Ethics of Piracy as an act of Anti-Corporate Ethical Media Consumption - A Short Essay

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Before any fag brings up steam. No, you don't own any games on steam. You paid for a revokable license to pay the game. While it seems unlimited, you're hoping that stream never changes it's policy and that it never goes out of business.
 
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Forgot to mention this but there are security risks to your PC when you pirate software. In that the software can't be fully trusted to do what it says and only what it says. Do you really trust the cracker teams that broke the security on the game, to not break the security of your PC? Most people aren't technical enough to even know where to start checking and only have windows defender and maybe some free or paid corp antivirus.

This is one of the biggest blockers for me to pirate. Because I have sensitive Files for reasonS.

There are ways to mitigate, but that's too technical for the philosophy of pirating.
 
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If you pirate things, maybe try uploading it to The Eye?

 

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Forgot to mention this but there are security risks to your PC when you pirate software. In that the software can't be fully trusted to do what it says and only what it says. Do you really trust the cracker teams that broke the security on the game, to not break the security of your PC? Most people aren't technical enough to even know where to start checking and only have windows defender and maybe some free or paid corp antivirus.

This is one of the biggest blockers for me to pirate. Because I have sensitive Files for reasonS.

There are ways to mitigate, but that's too technical for the philosophy of pirating.
Antivirus programs exist for a reason. Also you can just pick pirated games from famous, trustful pirate sites.
 

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