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Originally Posted by xg4bx
and that to me, is what piracy is-someone else directly profiting from your work and intentionally setting out to screw you. piracy to me is good old fashioned bootlegging.
someone who just downloads your software doesn't know who you are, they just need a program that does X and may have never even heard of your software until they came across it.they may even end up legally purchasing the next installment/update or whatever from you.
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If you get something you should pay for for free, how did you not directly profit? Why make excuses, just take what is really free if you want to be cheap.
And frankly, the software example you give is very naive, life isn't a feel good movie.
Of course the uploaders are worse, but it is the downloaders' demand that keeps them going.
And for a rich country like Switzerland to do something like that makes no sense at all. It is a slap in the face of all countries whose economy depends on such exports.