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Piracy is Good: The Moral Imperative of Sharing Knowledge (technomagnus.vercel.app)

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Piracy, in today’s context of unauthorized sharing of digital content, is wrongly condemned as immoral theft. However, it is not piracy itself that is immoral. Rather, it is the greed-driven laws and practices that censor knowledge and creative works to maximize profits. At its core, piracy is about sharing information and creative works with others, which should be seen as a moral good. 🤑

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowledge does want to be free, but its a stretch to say Guardians 3 is a unit of "knowledge". Creative works kinda don't want to be free; Guardians is only desirable because of the cast and crew's work, and you acting out the script is not the same at all. We shouldn't devalue creative labour, even as pirates.

Piracy cuts into the profits of studio investors, and that's good, without impacting how much actors and crew are paid. Win/win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but the length of copyright protection nowadays is far beyond what is reasonable. Any copyright past the original 34 year limit is corporate theft from the public domain imo

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

Man that is an absurdly difficult issue to address. Yes, you are right that copyright is just awful for everyone. But really the problem is not copyright per se, it's that (for example) Amazon preferred to burn hundreds of millions of dollars to get the rights to an IP when they were going to make up their own story anyway. If Tolkein's work were PD (which it should be, btw) it would have saved Amazon some money but they still utterly lack any good ideas and felt that being linked to a famous work would turn a terrible set of scripts into a sure fire winner.