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75% of the anti-piracy discussions I see rarely blame companies like Nintendo or Disney and always try to talk about how piracy is immoral, and you should feel "dirty" for doing it. My question is why do people seem to hate those who pirate more than the bad practices of mega-corporations or the fact that they don't want to preserve their media?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I don't remember ever seeing such an advertisement in my life.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You've never seen this? Never heard "home taping is killing music" or "don't copy that floppy"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No to all of those. I don't remember ever seeing a floppy. Oldest media formats I remember using are cds and cassettes. And that was in elementary school.

ig the piracy is theft advertising was more of a 90s thing that died down in the 2000s if those are your examples?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I guess so. Best I can recall, most people I knew were either avid pirates or casually saw it as low-level criminal activity by the early 2000s.

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