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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] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

By pirating you support other pirates and oppose copyright, which should be abolished.

I agree with the concept but folks sitting around downloading stuff from TPB are not actually taking the fight to copyright laws in any sense of the word. Even if that were the case it sure isn't motivating people. The desire to enjoy the thing is the driver 99.99% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter what their motivations are. What matters is the cultural normalization of willful copyright violation. I think that is the most important driver of major changes to law. In a democracy what matters is how the public feels about it, what they regard as normal, and that depends on how they and the people around them actually live. IMO the core reason we get things like gay marriage and legal weed is because of all the people openly being gay and smoking weed despite the law hating on them for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s actually a pretty compelling argument when you put it that way. I’m not sure I’m entirely sold, but I’ve got a lot to chew on here. Appreciate your elaborating!