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

submitted 1 year 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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[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I genuinely believe that stealing is stealing and anyone justifying it is doing so to not feel guilty about it.

I download things I haven't paid for. It's wrong. I can rationalize this because the stuff I'm stealing has already made their money and me enjoying it on my own time likely has zero impact on the content creators. Also, fuck the non-skippable intros and commercials on blurays.

The one exception to this, what I would argue is unquestionably "ethical piracy", is content that's actually important to the progress of humanity. Things like well researched scientific papers, studies about the humanities, psychology, the affects of technology, mechanization, artificial intelligence, etc. This should never be held behind lock and key. You whining about not having access to How I Met Your Mother is not a valid reason to steal content.

Also, people need to spend more time at their public libraries. If you want free shit, a lot of it is there explicitly for the purpose you all espouse.

[-] TheDarkFlame@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Public library near me is more expensive than amazon prime... I call that criminal.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Uh, yeah. I would think that is criminal. Your library isn't free?? Do you not have one in your county?

[-] TheDarkFlame@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope...

Welcome to European capitalism guised as a social democratic monarchy... (The Netherlands)

It costs 54 euro per year... Not much, but amazon prime here costs 3 euro a month.

Sadly bit is, as a new immigrant, I'd really love to have free and easy access to local literature... But between the relatively high cost, and the library being open 3 hours a day (and closed on Sundays)... It's just a little tricky to actually make it work.