Hypothetically, if you had to pay for every item you've pirated, how much do you estimate that would've costed? (At original price, no fines or anything like that)

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 4 days ago

Hypothetically, if you had to pay for every item you've pirated, how much do you estimate that would've costed? (At original price, no fines or anything like that)

I Cast Fist@programming.dev · 2 days ago

Does a WoW subscription count? I’ve played on private servers for a looooong time, that alone would’ve been some 20+ months of sub.

It’s tricky for me to estimate because the majority of my piracy happened around 2004-14, so lots of stuff I don’t remember, plus some of the games I pirated back then I ended up buying later on at a discount (Jazz Jackrabbit, SupCom, UT2004, X3TC). I still don’t own a legal copy of Age of Empires 2, so you can add that one to my debt.

Oh, that reminds me, if I add the many, many, MANY emulated roms to that list, boy, that’ll be a lot of debt. Some 500 games times ~40 dollars average, that’s 20k.

There are also the many anime episodes that simply didn’t exist as available for purchase, so “at original price” I guess it’d be zero.