You can share stories of when you played a game, it doesn’t mean you can copy the game itself so you still have access to it and someone else does too without any compensation going to the creator.
Consuming the fruit of someone’s labor is “profiting from it”
The labor needs to exist in order for you to have access to the content you’re pirating so yes in a way it’s forced to exist otherwise this conversation wouldn’t happen in the first place as there would be no content to pirate.
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You’re still profiting from their work without compensating them, that’s called slavery enter I’m from.
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You can share stories of when you played a game, it doesn’t mean you can copy the game itself so you still have access to it and someone else does too without any compensation going to the creator.
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That logic only works if you ignore the fact that someone had to put work into creating the game.
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Consuming the fruit of someone’s labor is “profiting from it”
The labor needs to exist in order for you to have access to the content you’re pirating so yes in a way it’s forced to exist otherwise this conversation wouldn’t happen in the first place as there would be no content to pirate.
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To profit > to obtain an advantage or benefit
The entertainment you get from the product is a form of profit
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I’m using an official definition of the word
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Then no one should buy anything until we reach a point where no one produces anything because there’s no incentive to.
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How? I mean, by your logic why should people buy anything instead of just copying/stealing it? No one gets hurt if we do so, you said so yourself!