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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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[–] dog@suppo.fi 100 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  1. Content that you cannot acquire by any "lawful" means.
  2. Content that you already own a copy of (Yes, this includes "only" having a "license" to it; you own what you own).
  3. Content that is outrageously priced, and/or from large companies where the people who worked on the product will receive nothing from sold copies. (EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, etc)
[–] passepartout@feddit.de 46 points 1 year ago

Third category also contains works so old that only the people hoarding rights to said works profit from giving out licenses to them bc they never worked on them.

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Content that isn't legally available in your geographic location

[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Most TV shows in foreign countries, and a billion movies are like this. Since they refuse to take my money, I can’t feel guilty for getting it for free.

[–] HamBrick@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

3a. Nintendo.

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't stuff like childporn fall under category 1?

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Lawful content and lawful aquisition are two different things. CSAM is never ethical, doesn't matter how you aquired it.

[–] dog@suppo.fi 0 points 1 year ago

That's one way to self-report.