KACHOW!!!
Smash Journeyman
The more important question we should ask ourselves is "Is it ok to steal, if so, what is it ok to steal?"
Looking at it from a consequentialists perspective, we might say : "Well, if we pirated enough copies of super smash bros, would they stop making it?" The answer is almost always 'No', because the amount of pirated copies of any e-good is almost always vastly outnumbered by the amount of that thing that was actually payed for in a shop. In all seriousness, when is it ok to pirate? I mean, really ok, like you shouldn't feel guilty at all: When there's no possible way of buying the thing you want to pirate, or getting the money to the original content producer or license holder. Like, a very obscure band who doesn't have digital distribution, and doesn't have a company that produces physical copies of an album. That being said, I pirate stuff constantly, mostly without meeting any of my aforementioned criteria.
Looking at it from a consequentialists perspective, we might say : "Well, if we pirated enough copies of super smash bros, would they stop making it?" The answer is almost always 'No', because the amount of pirated copies of any e-good is almost always vastly outnumbered by the amount of that thing that was actually payed for in a shop. In all seriousness, when is it ok to pirate? I mean, really ok, like you shouldn't feel guilty at all: When there's no possible way of buying the thing you want to pirate, or getting the money to the original content producer or license holder. Like, a very obscure band who doesn't have digital distribution, and doesn't have a company that produces physical copies of an album. That being said, I pirate stuff constantly, mostly without meeting any of my aforementioned criteria.