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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Good. However way you feel about piracy or Bethesda. This is stealing directly from artists and we need to protect artists and their right to make money. Which in turn is their right to live, because we live in a capitalistic society. Denying someone pay is denying them shelter, food, heat, everything. I can only hope that subsequent cases like this for smaller artists are treated similarly as important. I know that's a tall ask though. That the indie games studio losing money to bootleggers isn't going to get the same response from the Sheriff's Office.

This is at least a step in the right direction as cases like this are usually hand waved away as "well those people weren't going to buy the game anyways." or "It's just copying a file." or best of all "No real damages have been done."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

bad, what could possibly justify someone being arrested over something like this? and the only one who could "deny pay" is the bosses anyway, game devs don't get any sort of cut from profits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

He stole physical games and sold them. That's a crime in any country on Earth I believe.

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