this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is “losing a sale” and not getting the money, right?

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      10 months ago

      Since when, you can do a perfect rip of a CD and burn an exact image of the disk loslessly thousands of times. Same for DVD and Blu-rays. If you are talking about a physical book, then yes, making lossless copies is more involved, but still technically possible with the proper equipment and knowledge.

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      10 months ago

      Distributing data to everybody is the only communism that works.

      Endless replication, creates endless intelectual and creative wealth and diminishes financial wealth to zero.

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        10 months ago

        It won’t even diminish it to zero. Some people will still pay. Ya I could download games for free and play them but I want to support the teams that made them so they keep making them. I only get games for free if that is the only way of getting them.

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      If a copy isn’t kept after sale, it should be legal. It’s my understanding it is legal in the EU.

      That is if you can sell a game you bought on Steam. Steam makes sure to copies aren’t played at the same time so you can’t keep your copy after selling it.