Philosophical Quandry: Piracy

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If not, he will uninstall it and be done with it. Just him forever playing on this copy is not an option to be considered in this thread.

Well, this is the crucial bit. You can't really guarantee this in real life, so the whole issue becomes hypothetical.

However, even in this hypothetical case,it would still (technically) be morally wrong. Even if you argue that you're doing shrapnel/ malfador a favour by encouraging a new player by means of a limited trial, the right to issue such a trial still rests exclusively with them.

Of course, that's kind of a rigid approach, and it's really not the way ppl do things these days...

giving {your game CD} to a friend to try is not pirating because your not copying your game and giving it off to him - your sharing your CD. And your getting it back later.

Except that your friend could easily just install the game and not uninstall it- SE4 doesn't require a CD to run, you know.