People care way too much about things being legal vs illegal... How likely are piracy laws to be enforced upon the average pirate? Unlikely? Then the average pirate wouldn't care... Humans tend to follow incentives in Risk vs Rewards kind of way, and most are heavily skewed towards the more immediate of the two.

Unless someone really cares about the ethical side of the issue, "legal vs illegal" is irrelevant unless enforced. Even then, the ethical side of the issue can easily be waved away by "if buying isn't owning..." kind of thinking...

I feel bad about pirating games I don't "own" but not bad enough to not do it. But I don't feel bad at all about pirating a version of a game I "own" another version of. (Like pirating Chrono Trigger for DS, after buying the PC version when the DS version is no longer legally obtainable.) The ethical "burden" there is basically zero. #piracy #askleo #technology #aiimages