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Arguably if everyone pirated everything it wouldn't be good for the games industry, but objectively piracy is good for the industry. It acts as competition to encourage companies to improve their service (see: gabe newel, "Piracy is a service problem"), it preserves historical games that companies otherwise would just delete, leaving nobody ever able to play them. It's good.



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