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Or you can download an emulator and a rar with all 721 SNES games for free.

I could also sneak into movie theaters to see all my movies for free. It's not stealing, right? I haven't deprived them of a physical product? There's no marginal cost to them to show the movie to one extra person, right? They lose no revenue because I wasn't going to pay to see the movie anyway, right? And movies are terrible right now, aren't they? Everything's a sequel or reboot, there are no more original ideas, right? And the way they show ads before movies now, they have no right to do that after I've already paid for a ticket, do they? And people are always talking in theaters and they never do anything about it, right? And they turn up the air conditioning too high...

I'd really have to be a sucker to pay for movie tickets given all those reasons not to, right? I think I'll still do it, though.

idk dude. It's the same argument as pirating Game of Thrones. Most people when offered a convenient and safer channel would probably just pay for Game of Thrones, but many have no simple recourse other than paying out the ass for cable.

e.g. I live in Canada. Pretty sure HBO Go doesn't support Canada, and I'm sure as hell not wasting my money on cable TV just to see Game of Thrones. I'd rather pirate it. But if I can watch something on Netflix, obviously I'd rather just do that and pay for the service.

If you want to pirate movies that are 20+ years old I'm not going to judge you for it. It's not that I disrespect copyright as a whole, it's that I think the length has gotten way too long.

And piracy is not the same thing is downloading something you already have a license to.

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