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Is it piracy to download a video game from 1998 that is no longer sold, the developer is bankrupt, and the only way to play it is via a ROM?

The law says "Yes." Logic says "No."

In this post, we are going to look past the moral panic and the legal threats to examine the real state of r/piracy—the culture, the risks, and the uncomfortable truth about why people still hoist the Jolly Roger in 2025. We thought we had won. Spotify killed music piracy. Netflix killed movie piracy. The logic was simple: if you make content cheap, accessible, and legal, people will pay. r piracyu