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ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton
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At which point what's the point of even buying it if you're going to torrent it later on anyway though
Would have just the same claim to ethically pirate it if I were to buy it there as if I bought it on steam
IANAL but is that really true? You don't "Buy" anything on steam, you're licensing a subscription to use the software under their terms. Downloading a torrent wouldn't be covered by that. Purchasing a game though and having the same data backed up on a device is covered (identical to a torrent download), at least I thought that was the legal case for rom's and such even being able to exist in the first place.
I think torrenting someone else's copy of a game is still illegal regardless of if you own a copy yourself
I'm talking purely ethically, I don't consider it to be any different where I paid for the game originally if I can no longer access it via that platform
Pretty sure roms are only legal if you rip them yourself from your own console.
I don't think it's legal for people to distribute them but torrenting makes that an unwinnable game of wack a mole to shut down so they don't bother usually