Never did. Not theft, not even larceny, just infringement on a statute granted right. If you don't cause a minimum amount of damages per year, it isn't even a crime, just a tort.
Don't all the people who get in trouble for video game piracy get busted for selling access to it? I know some Switch emulation dude got in big trouble for doing that exact thing.
They tend to go after distributors whether they're charging or not, although charging for it would probably be an aggravating circumstance. They could technically go after end users as well and occasionally they do but it's just not worth it for the most part. It's similar to Microslop looking the other way when consumers pirate their jeetware but going scorched earth on any business that tries it with their enterprise edition.
I guess they could go after regular shmucks, but I feel a lot of piracy cases are for old games that you can’t buy first hand anymore and haven’t for years. Feels like a lot of companies are missing out on easy revenue vs having people hunt down old consoles while the companies don’t see a single cent.
Not video games but with MP3s the (((record companies))) argued that pirating violated the commercial rights for a song, costing something like $100k per song per download.
If buying it doesn't mean I own it then me pirating it doesn't mean I stole it.
But is there anything on it even worth pirating?
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It's playstation, so no. Every game is the same with a different coat of paint.
can u pirate console games too??
Usually not right away, but inevitably the console is emulated on PC or someone figures out how to jailbreak the console.
Never did. Not theft, not even larceny, just infringement on a statute granted right. If you don't cause a minimum amount of damages per year, it isn't even a crime, just a tort.
Don't all the people who get in trouble for video game piracy get busted for selling access to it? I know some Switch emulation dude got in big trouble for doing that exact thing.
They tend to go after distributors whether they're charging or not, although charging for it would probably be an aggravating circumstance. They could technically go after end users as well and occasionally they do but it's just not worth it for the most part. It's similar to Microslop looking the other way when consumers pirate their jeetware but going scorched earth on any business that tries it with their enterprise edition.
I guess they could go after regular shmucks, but I feel a lot of piracy cases are for old games that you can’t buy first hand anymore and haven’t for years. Feels like a lot of companies are missing out on easy revenue vs having people hunt down old consoles while the companies don’t see a single cent.
Not video games but with MP3s the (((record companies))) argued that pirating violated the commercial rights for a song, costing something like $100k per song per download.
It's like they WANT us to pirate..
Except on PC with especially Steam, there there is literally no point to.