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Originally Posted by iPhantom
I wouldn't buy the game IRL in any circumstances, so I downloaded it. I'm not taking any profit at all, because if I didn't download it, I wouldn't buy it... so nothing is lost.
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This.
This is the classic argument that people that steal games, manga, anime, music, movies, whatever use.
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I wouldn't have bought it in real life, so they didn't lose my money anyways."
That's like saying you have a right to squat in an unoccupied house because, hell, you weren't going to buy it anyway.
The major whole in this argument is that you gleaned the entertainment from the product without paying for it. If you hadn't have stolen that game, you would have been doing something else. If you hadn't been doing something illegal, you would have been doing something legal. That legal thing would be putting food on someone's table.