It’s gone. Wanted to ask over here before I went to check on Reddit.

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        Pirating stuff you can pay for is the opposite of based lol

        Nobody likes a thief

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          The first time I pirated a game was when I was unable to play Mass Effect 2 due to DRM blocking my ability to play at all (highlighting the irony of DRM, the fact that the pirated version was free of this issue).

          When I had a potato PC, I would often pirate games before I bought them, to see if they would be able to run. If I hadn’t done that, I would have erred on the side of caution and not bought any games I was unsure of.

          There are also a few pieces of media I’ve enjoyed that would have been literally impossible to access if I hadn’t pirated them, and were impossible to pay for.

          Piracy can also allow people to access games and/or software that would otherwise be lost to time (abandonware).

          Not all piracy is stealing and also some stealing is based.