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That's fine. I don't really claim to own the things I pirate.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
If buying is owning, piracy is still not stealing. Theft involves a tangible loss for someone else.
Which is a shame, because if I could create tangible loss for Ubisoft by downloading their games, I would do nothing else until they went under.
According to their logic, you can set up a shellscript that repeatedly copies an ISO of theirs to /dev/null. That should bankrupt them after a week or so.
Where's that greentext with the guy who takes over a company by pirating their game 100k times?
If we have to be comfortable not owning games, then they have to be comfortable us pirating them.