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It’s illicit copying as a failure to reward labor.

Under what jurisdiction?

I am personally responsible for nearly every byte in the games I’ve made.

You are responsible for numbers‽

Taking that without permission is not expressing anything besides “yoink.”

Whose permission?

Then what is press to you?

“Free as in speech” is perpendicular to “free as in beer.” Libre versus gratis. This is central to the free software movement.

So a journalist writing a story about your FOSS NES game would cost you?

piracy

Stop using tyrannical diction.
Publishers are capitalists.
Capitalists want your rent for copies of a game.
Studios choose to behold themselves to capitalists, or freely publish.

Read more theory.