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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Biggest personal examples are Minecraft and FL Studio. I asked my parents to buy Minecraft for me after a week of pirating it, and I bought an FL Studio license when I could afford to, nearly a decade after I first used it. I don't use it much, but it felt right.