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It is always morally acceptable to pirate things made by giant corporations (feddit.org)
submitted 1 day 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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[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

my view on it lies in two seperate buckets:

  1. if the thing being pirated is vastly overpriced for its function i don't see it as immoral
  2. if the thing being pirated is no longer available or was never made available for private ownership, ie only able to be streamed and only available on said service so long as the host streamer still has rights to do so, it isn't immoral.

and just to be clear, i don't see piracy as inherently evil or anticapitalistic. there have been several books and apps that i pirated that i liked and converted to an actual buyer to get more books in the series or get updates to the program.