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I'm not fabricating anything. You wrote "Though I guess sometimes copyright is justifiable.", which means you believe it's not justifiable in most cases.
I do not agree and I said as much.
I mean:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/denuvo-respond-to-their-rep-for-tanking-games-im-a-gamer-myself-and-therefore-i-know-what-im-talking-about
They aren't selling enough games, why? Because of piracy of course! Yes, this remains true even though there is no pirated version of their game available, and there is no one downloading it illegally - but still, pirates are to blame for the lack of sales, of course.
No matter what pirates do or don't do, we will always be the one blamed.
Honestly, we pirates are so used to taking the blame at this point it's just another day, and frankly it pushes me further away from giving them money.
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For example, from the article I posted:
So, who is to blame for the lack of usage of this software? The pirates, of course:
Put bluntly, whenever a company does not get the money it expects, or the reaction it expects, it blames the pirate community even when said community is not even pirating their products.
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With that said; I have purchased over 900 Steam games and 200+ GOG games. But I will not purchase or use the ones which deploy anti-consumer tactics such as kernel level cheats or denuvo.