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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Can you list them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

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