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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I pirate because I like it when I have movie and money at the same time
I pirate games because the idea of a poor, overworked developer go homeless gets me hard.
The secret ingredient is crime.
I enjoy copyright infringement because I hate late stage capitalism.
I just like filling up hard drives and sitting on top of them like a dragon hoarding ones and zeros
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.
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
Its not theft its copyright infringement
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
it doesn't matter why you're doing the moral and correct thing, only that you do it.
...I mean...PIRACY IS WRONG AND IMORAL!
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 love stealing~
I like taking things~
They committed the cool crime of stealing!
yeah..."stealing" by not paying for an infinitely copyable item from a giant corporation that made tens of millions of dollars while I was typing this.
It's a quote from Futurama, like the comment I replied to was. 🤦♂️
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
I literally got a movie called "Cocaine Shark" like last month because of the title alone lol. It's a terrible movie, but hey, it's about a killr shark high on coke.
Have you seen cocaine bear? Are we getting a Cocaine Cinematic Universe?
As far as I know, it was made as a ripoff film, like how Asylum makes shitty movies thst are like popular properties, but not quite.
I figured, but to be fair, Cocaine Bear was basically just a well done B movie, so it could only be a TECHNICAL difference! =P
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 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.
Pirating because you didn’t know that money can be exchanged for goods and services
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.
Bender knows what's up: https://youtu.be/hRy3MPdV0WE
Stealing is after all one of the worst and coolest of crimes: https://youtu.be/ELcMcmiv3j8
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/hRy3MPdV0WE
https://piped.video/ELcMcmiv3j8
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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.
I just enjoy copyright infringement.
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