The pirates aren't the good guys in this situation, because it's the root issue, but I personally blame the company when I'm inconvenienced by unnecessary practices when they should be working on more effective ways to deal with an issue that's going to inevitably exist. These policies tend to inconvenience legitimate customers more than pirates, because with enough time pirates will always have a work-around while legitimate customers have no legal recourse if a DRM ends up causing more problems than intended (which they always do), meaning customers either have to grin and bear it or use the same workarounds pirates are, and possibly become pirates themselves from that point forward. However, I also tend to oppose the response many companies make towards piracy, like DRM. I think most would agree that's a bad thing.
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When lots of people have the option, they will take a game for free rather than pay for it, meaning there are a number of potential legitimate purchases lost (though not every illegitimate acquisition represents a lost purchase, because many are also those who never would have bought it in the first place), meaning money out of the pockets of those who put effort into creating the work. Just for clarity's sake, generally speaking from a moral standpoint I do think of piracy as a bad thing most of the time. In some ways, I see it as the primary way that Silent Hill as it originally existed is being indefinitely preserved for posterity, because Konami isn't doing it. Of course you're taking some risks yourself, but it's all-around the simplest method to obtain these old games.
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Instead, it's quite easy to get the PC versions for free, and at this point it doesn't hurt anyone who deserves to be compensated for the work on those games. Buying old PS2 or PC versions secondhand only gives money to a third party individual, and buying the HD collection gives money to Konami but not anyone who worked on those games originally. Normally I wouldn't openly endorse pirating (given, you know, the whole illegal thing), but in this case it's really not unethical. I do definitely agree with that sentiment.
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