Your comment is beautifully succinct and made my day.
I don't use any cracked software, but I sure did when I was a kid without money. And I was so grateful for it, especially all the DAW and music production stuff.
There is an utilitarian argument somewhere in there about free software.
Copyright owners also habe legitimate interests in their products and are afforded with different ways to gain value from a software product that is locally installed.
Also, something like a self-contained, "portable" linked binary that creates value without any dependency on any online service will always be trivial to copy but also maximally useful.
(Edit: languages that depend on an interpreter don't differ too much, I think)
I don't use any cracked software, but I sure did when I was a kid without money. And I was so grateful for it, especially all the DAW and music production stuff.
There is an utilitarian argument somewhere in there about free software.
Copyright owners also habe legitimate interests in their products and are afforded with different ways to gain value from a software product that is locally installed.
Also, something like a self-contained, "portable" linked binary that creates value without any dependency on any online service will always be trivial to copy but also maximally useful.
(Edit: languages that depend on an interpreter don't differ too much, I think)