You block ads because of privacy.
I block ads to cause the greatest amount of financial damage, purely out of spite.
We are not the same.
Steal. To take another person's property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
Take. To remove someone or something from a particular place.
I’m not taking anything, I’m merely creating a copy of it. I would 100% download a car if that meant cloning someone’s car for free and without damaging the original one.
This doesn't get said enough. Piracy is only damaging if I would have paid to get the thing in the first place. If I'm pirating something that I would have avoided entirely had I needed to pay, literally no one is taking any losses.
id download a car if it specifically took a car from a rich person
If it creates a copy of it, like a car-sized star trek replicator, sure. It wouldn’t matter who’s car you’re cloning as long as no harm is done to the original car.
If you wrote a book, and I photocopied it from the library and redistributed copies to all my friends, you can't be mad because nothing was taken from you.
I don't understand the downvotes. I'm justified in making copies and distributing those copies to my friends without paying the creator. Nothing was taken.
Wrong, I could get mad, just wouldn’t call it theft because it’s not.
I hope your friends like it enough to buy it if they get the chance uwu I’d be doing my best to provide a better product/service than the pirate alternative.
I'm mad about these pinko libraries existing in the first place. That's lost sales!
I don’t know why some people sugar coat it.
I’d pirate anyway because I don’t wanna spend money, and so would a lot of people who instead choose to hide behind excuses.
I have seen these big long winded speeches about how immoral it is to sell copyrighted material and how some dumb shit like spiderman should fall under the 'free sharing of ideas to better humanity' and blah blah blah.
Bro. We are thieves. We are stealing because its easy and the products cost too much.
It also depends on who's behind the product. Good indie game with one or a few developers - never. Adobe - I consider it a moral obligation.
lol nope. you are a thief. which is fine. nobody is getting hurt. but there is no moral oblation to steal. you don't want to pay for a product and stealing it is easy to get away with it so you do it. simple as that.
Bad news: piracy isn’t theft if buying isn’t owning
In what world is getting something for free that the original owners are charging money for not theft?
You engaged in a TOS with a service provider. The terms of your ownership were not negotiated and yet you tacitly agreed to the contract.
I used to NOT advocate for piracy. I still pirated shit because I did not want to pay but I never suggested that it was the right thing to do. But the way that these corporations try to fuck their customers more and more I feel like paying for something is basically tipping a billionaire. Their pockets are bottomless and they will figure out a hundred different ways to make sure they don't pay taxes on those billions while the rest of us have to pay a third of our hard earned cash in taxes. Piracy is not only OK, I think it is warranted at this point.
EXACTLY
You're not entitled to media. Just own the fact that you like stealing media.
Its not theft its copyright infringement
“Copyright infringement”: when a shitty set of laws, known collectively as copyright laws, infringe not just on people individual rights but also on the advancing and progressing of society.
300% real definition
The crazy thing is that you’ve been tricked into thinking piracy even is theft
When subtraction is equivalent to addition because capitalists needs to justify owning the means of production.
I just enjoy having 1 app to browse the content I want to watch instead of a dozen different apps that suck in their own special ways.
plex won't download properly on my phone, but it's not because some big company decided that I'm not allowed to do that, it's just cause the devs suck.
If those corporations are allowed to do it, then so are we.
Even the corporation that made all those "You wouldn't download a car" ads are now downloading actors for their movies.
obligatory "if buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing"
and also there's a moral argument for data preservation here somewhere
Pirating is stealing regardless and that's cool 😎
I prefer “unauthorized duplication of bits” :3
I just enjoy copyright infringement.
I just like filling up hard drives and sitting on top of them like a dragon hoarding ones and zeros
its very cool and funny to do crimes, actually
Copyright infringement isn't a crime though, only commercial copyright infringement is.
I think piracy is the inevitable result of restricting access.
Given that music services like Apple music, Spotify, YouTube music, and others, all have access to just about anything you might want to hear as soon as it's released, no matter what service you use, you get access. Pick your favorite.
Meanwhile in the world of TV and movies, everything is everywhere. If you want to pay for access to whatever you want to watch, you're going to be subscribing to just about every video streaming service in existence to achieve it, because everyone has exclusives. Don't like the website, user interface, search system, algorithmic suggestion system, mobile app, webpage, price, etc. Of a service? Too fucking bad, they're the only one who streams that show you like, either pay too much for cable and sit on your couch every week at the same time to watch it there (if that's even an option... and over pay for it), or use the stupid streaming service you hate to watch it. Your alternative? Piracy.
IMO, piracy is inevitable as long as access is this limited.
I don't know anyone who pirates music anymore.
I know of plenty that pirate TV and movies.
Believe it or not, but piracy with principles is much more fun
Why not both? I dont NEED 90% of the forgeries I download, but a good 60-80% of them I'd still pay for if digital media ownership wasnt such a fucking shit show right now. Treat me with respect as a customer or I'll fucking fly the flag, I'm not a sack of money you can punch to get money out of it because you're too fucking lazy to get some respectfully
The secret ingredient is crime.
I enjoy copyright infringement because I hate late stage capitalism.
Pirating because you didn’t know that money can be exchanged for goods and services
Ethical theft should be the norm
I pirate because I was taught to pirate from a young age. My dad brought home a copy of DOOM from his friend, my aunt rented VHS's from Blockbuster and copied TF out of them and let friends borrow them. Every Windows OS I've installed we've reused CD keys. And now, I download movies/tv shows for my kids to watch so they aren't inundated with ads. But...I buy the things that are worth it. I've bought my kids all the Five-Nights games because they enjoyed them. My steam library is FILLED with humble-bundles from Indy artists and games that were lovingly made by their creators like BG3, Enshrouded, Nightingale, etc. But I also have a Nintendo switch that's cracked WIIIIDE open because fuck Nintendo. Also fuck Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Activision (RIP Blizzard), Apple, and I'm sure I'll come up with more later. Oh yeah, and FUCK NESTLE.
FUCK NESTLE.
I don't know how to download chocolate but once I figure it out...
Strawberry Kwik, man...
Facts, I love stealing, I love taking things
You wouldn't download insulin
It's not theft though, never was. Wasn't even a crime until a few years ago.
I pirate because I like it when I have movie and money at the same time
Well, since Pirates copy rather than take, surely they're creating value everytime they make a copy of something (were you had one, now you have two), unless that something had no value to begin with.
Be a a Pirate: It's good for the Economy!
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Partially.
The avoiding payments is immoral. The owning what you copied part not.
If I can download a game or a movie and then watch it offline without the possibility that the company I bought it from deletes it at any time from my hard drive then I would pay for such a service.
Steam is close but in theory they can delete your game once they decide that you shouldn't have access to that game anymore.
I'm also a digital theft enjoyer. Unless I have to jump through fucking tons of hoops to watch some movies or tv shows, in those cases I happily pay the streaming service (if it's not in streamio, that is). The waste of time is not worth it, and I care more about convenience.
Thinking of all the shit I buy from the money I did not spent, because I chose to sail the 7 seas instead.
Its not theft its copyright infringement
I'm just poor.
That and of course my friend Baxter here.
I pirate games because the idea of a poor, overworked developer go homeless gets me hard.
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I just like training AI.
Kinda. I'm terrified how everyone seems to be in favour of having significantly stricter copyright protections because of scary AI.
