There is thousands of hours of paid work to produce any kind of software or game. It doesn’t matter if the end result is burned into a physical disk or not. What’s of value here is not the 1 cent piece of plastic but the content.
When you copy content that has a cost, if the company is not offering it to you, what do you call your action ?
I mean, really, you spent 5 years working on a game with no salary. Then a day before launch day someone just makes a copy of it and distributed it « for free » in the internet. How are you going to make a salary out of it ?
123pie123|2 years ago
people are copying
and what do you mean by "you're not allowed to"
shinycode|2 years ago
When you copy content that has a cost, if the company is not offering it to you, what do you call your action ?
I mean, really, you spent 5 years working on a game with no salary. Then a day before launch day someone just makes a copy of it and distributed it « for free » in the internet. How are you going to make a salary out of it ?
photonerd|2 years ago
Copying is often called taking a copy. Even basic usage of the term copying invalidates your point!
As for “not allowed” that will vary by contract/law/agreement/license/etc
This distinction is why it’s usually not downloaders that are punished, rather uploaders: they’re the ones that broke an agreement.