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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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[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not going to say piracy is right or wrong.

What I will say is if everyone had access to that replicator, and everyone replicated everything in the store and left, the store would close down, and the products would stop being made.

Likewise, piracy is only viable because not everyone does it. If literally every person pirated the games or movies of any given company, that company would no longer be profitable and would close down.

Piracy is getting something for free because other people pay for it.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

Except there are people who buy something AND want to have offline backup copies of it.