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How does pirating make a corporation broke? Making a copy doesn't steal money.
Edit: We can't pirate a company into bankruptcy.
Because they keep whining that they're losing money /s
EDIT: added /s
I have an automated setup that can torrent the same game 100000 times so I can make corporations go broke at the click of a button. Fear me
I have a collection of 10000 classic Nintendo games on an HDD so I can make Nintendo America file chapter 11. Fear me
You didn't pay up to enjoy the product. They lost revenue. But yes, it didn't "broke" the corporation.
This assumes I was going to buy it in the first place
You would if piracy wasn't an option. Maybe not all of it, but some of it.
They lost revenue
They lost HYPOTHETICAL revenue. Assuming that everyone who pirates a product would otherwise buy it is a textbook appeal to probability fallacy
We can’t pirate a company into bankruptcy because there are still people paying for the movies and games we download. If everyone pirated content, these companies would go bankrupt, and there would no longer be new content to pirate. Online pirates often justify their behavior by telling themselves a story about how they’re 'sticking it to the man,' but in reality, we’re just freeriders enjoying the fruits of others' labor. We’re leeches with no moral ground to stand on.
Well, they have to pay licensing fees for the media, pay crazy money for the IT infrastructure, which they have no matter how many downloads.
If you aren't stealing them they aren't stealing your content or work with AI. This pirating isn't stealing bullshit is tired. Some backwards ass way to justify stealing someone's right to distribute their work and get paid.
How are you this naive? You know someone has to pay the developers a salary right? How would corporations pay them if nobody bought the game and instead pirated?
/s