You block ads because of privacy.

I block ads to cause the greatest amount of financial damage, purely out of spite.

We are not the same.

Steal. To take another person's property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.

Take. To remove someone or something from a particular place.

I’m not taking anything, I’m merely creating a copy of it. I would 100% download a car if that meant cloning someone’s car for free and without damaging the original one.

I don’t know why some people sugar coat it.

I’d pirate anyway because I don’t wanna spend money, and so would a lot of people who instead choose to hide behind excuses.

Bad news: piracy isn’t theft if buying isn’t owning

I used to NOT advocate for piracy. I still pirated shit because I did not want to pay but I never suggested that it was the right thing to do. But the way that these corporations try to fuck their customers more and more I feel like paying for something is basically tipping a billionaire. Their pockets are bottomless and they will figure out a hundred different ways to make sure they don't pay taxes on those billions while the rest of us have to pay a third of our hard earned cash in taxes. Piracy is not only OK, I think it is warranted at this point.

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.

The crazy thing is that you’ve been tricked into thinking piracy even is theft

Its not theft its copyright infringement

I just enjoy copyright infringement.

obligatory "if buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing"

and also there's a moral argument for data preservation here somewhere

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.

its very cool and funny to do crimes, actually

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.

Believe it or not, but piracy with principles is much more fun

I love stealing~

I like taking things~

I just like filling up hard drives and sitting on top of them like a dragon hoarding ones and zeros

I pirate because I was taught to pirate from a young age. My dad brought home a copy of DOOM from his friend, my aunt rented VHS's from Blockbuster and copied TF out of them and let friends borrow them. Every Windows OS I've installed we've reused CD keys. And now, I download movies/tv shows for my kids to watch so they aren't inundated with ads. But...I buy the things that are worth it. I've bought my kids all the Five-Nights games because they enjoyed them. My steam library is FILLED with humble-bundles from Indy artists and games that were lovingly made by their creators like BG3, Enshrouded, Nightingale, etc. But I also have a Nintendo switch that's cracked WIIIIDE open because fuck Nintendo. Also fuck Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Activision (RIP Blizzard), Apple, and I'm sure I'll come up with more later. Oh yeah, and FUCK NESTLE.

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

Pirating because you didn’t know that money can be exchanged for goods and services

I enjoy copyright infringement because I hate late stage capitalism.

Ethical theft should be the norm

Facts, I love stealing, I love taking things

It's not theft though, never was. Wasn't even a crime until a few years ago.