Most of us have done it at some point, possibly without any awareness of the harm it might cause. After all, piracy has for a long time been an integral part of video game culture. To discuss whether there is any moral angel from which piracy can be justified, we collaborate with Shlomo Sher, Philosophy professor at California State University Fullerton, and Andy Ashcraft, veteran game designer and lecturer in Game Design and Screenwriting at the New York Film Academy, from the Ethics and Video Games podcast.
Shownotes
PC piracy survey results: 35 percent of PC gamers pirate (Wes Fenlon)
How Serious is Piracy in the Videogame Industry? (Nobuya Fukugawa)