Video Game Piracy Is Good, Actually

You told me to pirate something immediately and I couldn't think of anything, so I downloaded your video...

The real pirates in the game industry are the ceos paying themselves hundreds of millions of dollars while their employees are forced to work 70 hour weeks for 2 years, and then let go anyway

Pirating Adobe and Ubisoft is always morally correct

I once knew a guy, Who only pirated games. Then one day he enjoyed a game so much he decided to go and purchase a copy. After installing the game onto his PC, the legitimate copy refused to run properly and continue to crash. So he uninstalled and played his pirated copy instead.

A wise man once said: "I don't pirate indie games because they need the money. I don't pirate AAA games because they suck."

my favorite saying is "if buying isn't owning piracy isn't stealing"

"anything said in this video is a form of satire" and then Immediately after: "PIRACY IS AMAZING"

I am not a videogame pirate I am a videogame PRIVATEER, I am a contractor under the crown and all my actions are sanctioned so long as I only attack enemy games

I love how on the internet so many people are treating piracy like this big ethical dilemma, but where I grew up nobody even knew you were supposed to pay for Windows

Pirating Nintendo games is pretty epic, although i tend to not like pirating indie games as i like to support the little guy

The thing I remember the most about that anti-piracy ad was wishing my internet was fast enough to download movies as fast as they do in the ad.

as an iranian living in a sanctioned country we cant really buy games, the downside is we cant pay most online games like squad. otherwise ive never paid for a game in my life and i played most games. there are times when i genuinely want to support a good indie game developer but i cant bc our banking doesnt work with dollar. otherwise we have websites that only allow iranian ip addresses but let you download virtually any games cracked latest cracked version

The depressing thing about piracy is that its sometimes better. Like, why pay for the same product in a worse package. Because its legal? 90% of the companies have already violated 30 workplace laws

- Clicks "Piracy is good, actually" - Startup up ad is the Ubisoft pirate game When an algorythm match is simultaneously the worst and the best...

Musician here: pirate my shit. Pirate my shit. Pirate my shit. If you like it, consider buying a cd or a vinyl. If not, well, I really don’t care. Literally anything is better than being paid literal cents per stream.

If Piracy is hurting the industry, then CEOs wouldn't be making $100+ million a year... Like Bobky Kotick...

6:13 as a child I thought this anti-piracy ad was just a really hype trailer for some internet crime movie lmaoooooo

Talk to any library scientists (the graduate degree for librarians) about how DRM not only makes our job harder but also limits how we can lend anything digital. Libraries have operated by the "first sale doctrine" for a long time, but it doesn't legally apply to digital materials. We dont get to buy one ebook and own it, we have to license it out for significantly more money. And the ebooks we have to pay so much for are often lacking in quality - not marked with page numbers, full of spelling errors, ect. And dont get me started on the tyrant of audible and how they try to make some books "exclusive" to their site, which is a massive disability rights and accessibility issue. A librarian cant officially support piracy (government bullshit) but many of us unofficially do. We literally arent allowed to preserve video games.

One of my favorite things that ever happened in the approval of piracy/ anti-DRM sphere was when Sseth reviewed Star Sector. In his review, he noted that the game has no copy protection in it at all, then he included his actual CD key, and he provided a download link where you could get the whole game, which happened to be the developer's own distribution site where you buy and download it properly. We crashed the website. Not from too many downloads at once, but we crashed it from too many people trying to buy the game at once. If piracy can be considered theft, then the invitation to piracy by a company generates so much respect that the theft becomes negligible. Helps if you make a great game too, obviously, and it is. Go get Star Sector. Go "try" it for free, if nothing else.

In Mexico, a lot of years ago was a campaign that says: "Comprar películas piratas está mal, pero tú como papá te ves peor. ¿Qué le estas enseñando a tus hijos?" Which can be translated as "Buying pirate movies is bad, but you as a parent are worse, What are you teaching to your sons?". The irony is that most people actually answer "¡A ahorrar!" ("to save money!"), and that was hilarious