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Piracy still gives them a platform to justify their surveillance. The only correct take is a full boycott
It's a bullshit justification and they would be surveilling anyway. People shouldn't base their actions on how dishonest, exploitative capitalists will portray it.
False. There is no such thing as a "correct take" much less a single correct viewpoint. There are many valid means to resist capitalism. Piracy is generally better than boycotting because it's easier and requires no sacrifice. Thus it is far more likely to be widely adopted, as we've already seen. Many many people are already pirating compared to some imaginary boycott.
Also pushing for DRM-free contents, and understanding the only plan being destruction only benefits those who discreetly hoard power.
And tangential, but money is trivial when one has power. Plus, these companies seem to just joard control, while answering to centralizing countries. So I would wonder if truly the intent is "capitalism", with whatever negative adjectives are added to further distort the combined notion of free market, minimalist state and meritocracy.
How does that work? I thought piracy and watching youtube with adblock actually drains the resources of big tech faster than a boycott.
I think they're saying that capitalists will use piracy as a justification for surveilling people.
They'll use anything, so piracy is not anything special in that regard.
There's a reason their battlecry is "think of the children".
Yes and no. A lot of the content is made by creators who have no interest in justifying surveillance. And even the ones that do try to justify things like that ... if you keep your brain awake, you can probably enjoy things without internalizing the message.
When I pirate something, I have no clue what company or service it is from. How is it giving them a platform?