/vr/ - Retro Games

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It's amazing how clueless they were. Gaben made history when he called piracy a "service problem". Software isn't a product. It's not a good. It's information. Expecting software to follow the same economics as goods is stupid and futile.
Humans will never identify copying with stealing, because when you copy something you know you don't own it. You own the physical media of the copy, not the information you copied. You instinctively know that information has no physical value. It's worth ZERO physical goods in exchange.
The correct way to get money in exchange for information is something like Patreon. Because then you're selling the service of producing the information directly, rather than the information itself. Instead of paying per-copy, you're paying a service provider. Patreon and Steam are big because they're a better economic model for the digital age.