Is there is a list of pirating friendly companies? (lemy.lol)

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I understand that the solution will be always to use free( Open Source/Public Domain) stuff instead of Propietery stuff.

But in the cases where there is still not something free, is there is a list of companies which is fine with pirating their products aka don't issue DMCA request whenever they see their products getting pirated?

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[-] ivn@jlai.lu 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You are conflating the two meanings of free. Pirated software does not improve your freedom and open source is not necessarily free.

That being said I've seen a few indie game studios making pro-piracy statements or even putting the game on torrent networks themselves. But these are the one that deserve the most to be paid.

[-] True@lemy.lol 3 points 2 years ago

Can you list them?

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago

Ultrakill is one such game, and its dev basically said, "If you can't afford my game, pirate it. Money shouldn't be a barrier to the arts."

[-] ivn@jlai.lu 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can't, I forgot most of it. But a little search returned some results:

But it's also true that sometimes it's not done with a pro-piracy stance but they would just rather have it pirated than bought through key-resellers as these can hurt indy-game dev a lot.