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What would you considered "Ethical Piracy" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys, first of all, I fully support Piracy. But Im writing a piece on my blog about what I might considere as "Ethical Piracy" and I would like to hear your concepts of it.

Basically my line is if I have the capacity of paying for something and is more convinient that pirating, ill pay. It happens to me a lot when I wanna watch a movie with my boyfriend. I like original audio, but he likes dub, so instead of scrapping through the web looking for a dub, I just select the language on the streaming platform. That is convinient to me.

In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something? And where is 100 justified and everybody should sail the seas instead?

I would like to hear you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Straight black but I still consider ethical:

The entire "going to the movies" experience is terrible for me and my wife, only going to get worse with a runt on the way. It's certainly a fault of the theater I try and attend, but I'm not driving 2 hours for a decent viewing experience.

I pirate like CRAZY. BUT if I find a film/TV show I really enjoy, I certainly do my part in word-of-mouth or digital marketing for them. It's certainly once it's left the theaters but I wasn't going to that anyway. It also gives a chance for older films/series to get some funding that I may not have picked up otherwise.

Occasionally if there's a film/show that's a standout, I'll buy a physical copy. Honestly I never open them as I have a more convenient digital copy on plex but I do put in some for it.

That said, watch Grave Encounters 1 (not 2..) and Cabin in the Woods. I believe they're both on Netflix but absolute top tier movies if you're into horror for GE or horror parody for CITW, cabin possibly being in my top 5 of all time.

Also that said, I've seen way too many episodes of MTV Cribs for me to care about it too much >:(