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The post highlights the disparity between the pricing of boxed and digital versions of games and software. It criticizes the lack of ownership in digital purchases, the phenomenon of abandonware, and excessive pricing models turning products into SaaS with microtransactions. The post notes the importance of digital archiving by individuals and the relative success of platforms like Spotify in reducing piracy.

[Piracy]

i’ll do you one better:
Piracy is often not a issue of pricing, but a service problem.
if the paying customers are getting a legitimately worse product/service than the pirates and the reason for it is entirely under your control(like intrusive DRM, or obtuse practices) then it should not come as a surprise when thefolks that are otherwise willing ot give you money, prefer the service that respects them.

It is one of my favorite memes ever.

“Steal” = taking other’s property (and make it yours)
“Buy” = exchanging money to obtain a product or service (and make it yours)
The main topic in this discussing is “what makes it yours?” and “when something is yours?”

Totally agree. I deserve to get the copy of the game, movie, or series I bought, not just pay the “access” to that game through a company’s gateway.

totally agree with the point of view.