I understand that the solution will be always to use free( Open Source/Public Domain) stuff instead of Propietery stuff.

But in the cases where there is still not something free, is there is a list of companies which is fine with pirating their products aka don't issue DMCA request whenever they see their products getting pirated?

    • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      e does not improve your freedom and open source is not necessarily free.

      Wube has encouraged people to pirate their game over buying key-resellers like G2A. G2A was such a legal pain in their ass for a period that they would rather you just pirate the game (being Factorio).

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      Ultrakill is one such game, and its dev basically said, "If you can't afford my game, pirate it. Money shouldn't be a barrier to the arts."

    • ivn@jlai.lu
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      3 months ago

      I can't, I forgot most of it. But a little search returned some results:

      • https://medium.com/@bentyrer/5-game-developers-who-turned-piracy-into-opportunity-8809914c94fc
      • https://torrentfreak.com/game-developer-sees-boost-in-sales-after-releasing-official-torrent-200113/
      • https://torrentfreak.com/game-developer-promotes-game-on-torrent-sites-091106/
      • https://torrentfreak.com/game-developer-flirts-with-pirates-on-bittorrent-sites-090427/

      But it's also true that sometimes it's not done with a pro-piracy stance but they would just rather have it pirated than bought through key-resellers as these can hurt indy-game dev a lot.

    • FMFM@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Pal world was the biggest one in recent times afaik. Put up their own torrents and made a few tweets about it