I'm not apologizing neither myself and even less the author.
However a world where everybody respects IP 100% all the time is either full of virtuous men such as you (if you are not a hypocrite) or an incredibly sad place due to all the repression.
Intellectual endeavors map to property poorly. Fashion industry has learned this lesson long ago.
And "entitlement" is as much a straw man as any other. No matter how correct and virtuous your outlook is. I don't event know what you are advocating, but whatever it is you are not very practical about it.
I'm too pragmatic about these things to try and advocate anything for the consumer other than ask that they pay for their games. I'm not asking the FBI to kick down their door. I'm asking consumers to understand exactly what it is they are doing when they pirate. After all, it's not like the internet just generated a random bytestream that happened to be a game they like - a group of developers took years hand crafting that data. Respect that, or don't, but don't claim moral high ground, or even equal footing.
My goal as a game developer is to make games that people will want to play and then make them available to as many people as possible who are willing to pay something reasonable for it as a means of compensating me for my efforts and helping to ensure I might be able to make more games in the future. That is all.
I may have played games you built or not, I may have payed for them or not.
For what its worth I respect and support you and wish that you get fairly compensated by me if I come across your games.
The whole argument is really about publishing industry. Between the industry and consumers, the developer be it indie or corporate is always the one to get the short end.
I'm not apologizing neither myself and even less the author.
However a world where everybody respects IP 100% all the time is either full of virtuous men such as you (if you are not a hypocrite) or an incredibly sad place due to all the repression.
Intellectual endeavors map to property poorly. Fashion industry has learned this lesson long ago.
And "entitlement" is as much a straw man as any other. No matter how correct and virtuous your outlook is. I don't event know what you are advocating, but whatever it is you are not very practical about it.
That is all.