Lashon Hara – Illegally Copying Games
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Question
I sell parts from online games. The point of the game is to have a strong animal: you play for a long time and then receive it, and I sell it to people so they don’t have to wait. The game belongs to a Jew, apparently secular. Now an Israeli, also apparently secular, is making illegal duplications inside the game to get lots of animals in a second and is selling them. Am I allowed to tell the owner of the game (who does not allow duplications) and show him this Israeli who is duplicating?
Answer
Shalom u’vracha
If you tell him in order that he not be robbed, it is permitted, but only under several conditions.
a. The owner of the software will not harm the copier except in ways permitted according to Halacha. b. You are telling it for a constructive purpose, and not in order to take revenge on the copier for something he did to you in the past, nor for any other personal gain. c. You do not exaggerate in your account, but relate exactly what happened. d. The person to whom you are telling this himself behaves in accordance with Halacha and is not himself at fault in this very matter.
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