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This statement was made by Ubisoft's director of subscriptions, Phillipe Tremblay, who recently spoke to Gamesindustry.biz about the digital future and Ubisoft Plus specifically. Tremblay states that people eventually "got comfortable" with not owning their CD or DVD collections, and that a similar shift in attitude "needs to happen" in gamers.

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 93 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's fine. I don't really claim to own the things I pirate.

[–] Washburn@hexbear.net 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If buying is owning, piracy is still not stealing. Theft involves a tangible loss for someone else.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago

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?

[–] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

If we have to be comfortable not owning games, then they have to be comfortable us pirating them.