It’s actually unique to americas - older countries are less likely to do this.

Safe is a very broad term. Its not being used hyperbolically here. It’s not referring to physical safety.

I don’t understand why you think “avoiding prison” equals free work for companies. The individuals contributing to open source are subject to the same laws we’re discussing in this thread, and are the ones that would actually be getting consequences.

No one exists without a government, and that’s not even a pipe dream, it’d be societal collapse.

The usual consequences to not following the law are not in your favor.

If your goal in contributing to FOSS is to go to prison, there are a lot better avenues to achieve that.

Some call it hypocrisy, others call it “survival instinct”

Overwatch disabled doubling up well after launch, and only because they couldn’t or wouldn’t balance the game such that a 4 tank no DPS comp didn’t utterly cheese the game.