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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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Your friend is pretty damn cool. I personally pirate whatever I feel like and then buy the stuff I like and want to support. I used to avoid pirating indie games then I realized I bought more indie games when I pirated them first to see if I enjoyed them.
Honestly fair play to anyone that does this. I think people who create good quality content should be enumerated for their work.
I think if there was a system where people were honest and paid the price of a product they enjoyed after consuming it, then we'd see a totally different landscape - businesses wouldn't look into sales metrics and say "this was a great success!" when in fact it was just really well hyped which generated a lot of sales, but was in fact totally shit. They could instead see "it was downloaded x times, but only y% actually thought it was worth paying for".