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It is always morally acceptable to pirate things made by giant corporations (feddit.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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No, it's not like stealing a physical item from a store.

"stealing" a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you're stealing from a store is infinitely copyable. Like the replicator from star trek...or that one episode of Sabrina the teenage witch with that box that can make a perfect copy of everything you put inside of it.

Of course I personally would never pirate anything, no matter how much streaming services increase their prices or how much they crack down on VPN usage to get around geo-restrictions, PIRACY IS BAD AND ONLY BAD PEOPLE DO IT.

I've never pirated anything in my whole life!

There are people who understand what I'm saying...but apparently most people don't get it.

Of course that means I still would never pirate anything. That would be horrible to "steal" a copy of a movie or a TV show

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[–] caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago

But maybe the people who were working in big studio movies would shift to independent film making with lower budgets and more diversity.

Obviously it's also not a good solution, but do we need the big studios to make yet another avengers or minions?