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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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[-] abraxas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I can't count how many times I have to explain to people that etymological roots of words are not a foundation for an argument. The term "Piracy" was adopted by movie studios back when it wasn't really illegal... the same ones who also tried to make used media illegal (and eventually succeeded in a way).

Your Shakespearian example is very clearly theft

Except it's not, nor was it ever. Here's my metric. Anyone more property-focused than Adam Smith is wrong by default. If you're more capitalist than the founder of capitalism, maybe you have a problem. It's like Marx looking at someone and going "OMG is he too communist for me".