• whileloop@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I'd say in your case piracy was 1000% justified. You bought it, you should be able to play it.

    I think piracy is acceptable if one of these two conditions are met:

    • You already own a copy of the game
    • The game is no longer sold as new, such that any legitimate copy would have to be secondhand.
    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      The main problem is the "No end of life plan" issue

      If the software/game/whatever has to call a server to verify itself then when the company goes under or stops supporting it then the software/game/whatever becomes useless without a crack of some kind that may or may not be possible for the layman to implement

      Companies need an end of life plan for their products with DRM