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It is always morally acceptable to pirate things made by giant corporations (feddit.org)

submitted 17 hours ago by ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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No, it's not like stealing a physical item from a store.

"stealing" a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you're stealing from a store is infinitely copyable. Like the replicator from star trek...or that one episode of Sabrina the teenage witch with that box that can make a perfect copy of everything you put inside of it.

Of course I personally would never pirate anything, no matter how much streaming services increase their prices or how much they crack down on VPN usage to get around geo-restrictions, PIRACY IS BAD AND ONLY BAD PEOPLE DO IT.

I've never pirated anything in my whole life!

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[–] noorbeast@lemmy.zip 23 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I would like to suggest an alternate perspective, that digital media be beholden to protocols not platforms.

In other words lets focus on the drivers of competition...most evidence suggests that piracy goes down in response to easily accessible and affordable market conditions.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago

most evidence suggests that piracy goes down in response to easily accessible and affordable market conditions.

The assholes know this too. We're about due for another round of deshitifcation, just long enough to restore complacency.