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I understand that the solution will be always to use free( Open Source/Public Domain) stuff instead of Propietery stuff.

But in the cases where there is still not something free, is there is a list of companies which is fine with pirating their products aka don't issue DMCA request whenever they see their products getting pirated?

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[–] True@lemy.lol 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

e does not improve your freedom and open source is not necessarily free.

Wube has encouraged people to pirate their game over buying key-resellers like G2A. G2A was such a legal pain in their ass for a period that they would rather you just pirate the game (being Factorio).

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

Ultrakill is one such game, and its dev basically said, "If you can't afford my game, pirate it. Money shouldn't be a barrier to the arts."

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I can't, I forgot most of it. But a little search returned some results:

But it's also true that sometimes it's not done with a pro-piracy stance but they would just rather have it pirated than bought through key-resellers as these can hurt indy-game dev a lot.

[–] lemmur@szmer.info 2 points 2 months ago

Ultrakill dev and Acid Wizards studio

[–] FMFM@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Pal world was the biggest one in recent times afaik. Put up their own torrents and made a few tweets about it