"Online piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted content digitally without permission, such as music or software." Unless the developer shares the content here by themselves, then yes, it is piracy and we who download it from here are considered pirates.
I agreed, in general. But depends where you live. I still go to the bank to check my accounts and investments, because I'm far from rich. Otherwise, on patreon and subscribestar, the icstor's page has $1 - $10 - $15 - $25 and $100* fees (*only on patreon). Besides, where I live (unfortunately), a $10 fee a month will be more than $550 at final on 12 months, without taxes, because of currency conversion. Even for a guy who's usually forgots or does not care a few bucks lost, that would be a significant waste of money on this kind of 'product'. I'm not to judge where those guys like to spent their money, but from what I saw last 2.5 years, I'll never do the same.
It's been like that for two years. He cobbles together an "update" after two years and surprise, surprise the next one is already (Delayed). Probably will be for the next year and a half.
Perhaps.
I've already answered that to you. but it looks like you don't want to read or understand
Because ICSTOR is one of the devs who doesn't really care if his game gets leaked, he still has shit tons of subscribers and gets more than enough money. Why would he even care at this point anymore? Now for example let's look other, even bigger developer studio, Inceton Games. They care about their products enough (unlike ICSTOR) that they are actively going after the pirates and pirated links on the internet, they have even hired proper DMCA agency to try to take most of the illegal versions down from the different sites. So if Patreon devs would want, they could get the links down from pirate sites. But for most of the devs, the pirate sites are free advertisement and they understand that the free advertisement means most likely more supporters to their Patreon or SubscribeStar, which then means more money.
It’s pretty easy: downloading the file from a link that is shared by anyone else than the developer means that you are a pirate, as it is leaked by somebody behind the paywall where it is. Many devs do participate in discussions here, but still refer people here as ”pirates” in their own Discord servers and such platforms. The exception are the ones who willingly share the newest versions by themselves here.
NO offense, but if you want my money: Earn it. I never forget a debt.
Also, Patreon admins seems to not care if the supporters are still interested on paying for a specific project, just because they are earing their money too (from icstor and everybody else). It is just like a mediators who's take their share from the cake. Why would they stop it? That's why they call that a voluntary funding, or crowdfunding, or else.
Yeah, no, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
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