• nullA
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    then stealing isn’t piracy anyway.

    Sometimes stealing is piracy, but pirating digital content is never stealing. It’s copyright infringement.

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      21 hours ago

      No, sharing digital content is copyright infringement, but downloading it? Hey, how am I supposed to know this site isn’t legally allowed to give it to me?

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      But who benefits from intellectual property? Not the artists, paid by the companies, who don’t care about who pirates (at least in video games)

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        Depends entirely on the particular IP and what’s been negotiated.