Comment by cesarb
2 days ago
> Why pay for the Steam Deck, though? Buy it online and claim it never arrived to get a refund.
If you do so, the seller has one less device. If you copy a game, the seller still has the same number of games. Your analogy clearly doesn't work. A better analogy would be possible if we had Star Trek replicators: replicating a full Steam Deck.
> A better analogy would be possible if we had Star Trek replicators: replicating a full Steam Deck.
Well, we literally invented Star Trek replicators for information, and we've seen what happened. If we had Star Trek replicators people would be complaining that replicating food, medicine, etc. is immoral because you should be paying the "original creator" for their intellectual property.
Not defending the length of current US copyright, but as long as we live under capitalism, the people who spend years of their time making the information need to get compensated somehow.
Indeed everyone needs to be compensated somehow regardless of what they enjoy doing or are capable of doing.
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