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Originally Posted by MMM
This.
This is the classic argument that people that steal games, manga, anime, music, movies, whatever use.
"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.
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THIS!!!!
"Defendants of legality" can't make a good comparison for god's sake. How is going to an unoccupied house the same as having a ROM in your computer? If I go in an unoccupied house, people who want to buy it would have problems... while the copy of ROM I have does not damage anyone. People can still buy the same ROM as much as they want.