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

submitted 2 years ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] mister_monster@monero.town 28 points 2 years ago

Archival of information and software that is no longer available, such as NES games.

Any and all book piracy is ethical. It's just like a library. If libraries are ethical libgen is ethical.

[-] DigitalBits@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Libraries are ethical because they pay for the books. If we're limited to only physical books, then they buy new ones every ~8-12 rentals. Additionally (though I couldn't verify this through a search), I've heard they also pay more to buy them.

[-] mister_monster@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago

How does them paying for it make it more ethical? If I buy a book and put it on libgen does that make it OK then?

I have never, ever heard of a library rebuying the same book every 8-12 rentals, ever. What do they do with the old ones?

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