Is it ethically wrong to pirate games? I refute 4 common arguments for this.

I wrote this a long time ago, but I think it’s still pertinent

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The true piracy is when people label it “piracy” in the first place. They are hijacking a loaded word in a transparent attempt to make normal activity sound wrong before we’re even allowed to talk about it.

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That hijack is one of their worst blunders though as pirates are very romanticized in culture. They just made us look way cooler than the computer nerds we are.

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