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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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[–] esty@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

to answer the opposite of your question i would say it’s unethical to steal things from indie developers and creators; the same way its more wrong to steal from a local corner store than it is to steal from Walmart

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Even though I agree with you, I'd like to enphasize on piracy NOT being theft. Your analogy is great but I prefer to say it again just in case.

[–] Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

If items in the physical world could be stolen like it is for digital materials then it would mean the world has created a duplicator. Which would be absolutely awesome and that society has really advanced in technology. So good news all around.

But, sadly we cannot steal stuff in the real world like we can for digital because there is no duplication machine. There's no copier so real world theft is going to result in one person losing possession of the item they had.