If we're talking about denying profits to fatcats leveraging the Intellectual Property legislation they corruptly bought (for example anti circumvention legislation, business methods patents or the insane copyright lengths nowadays), then Piracy is pretty much a Moral Obligation.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago

My dad stole cable. Just continuing the family tradition.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

No officer, I do not "pirate"

I merely ask a friend of a friend to share with me free stuff, which are, obviously, totally perfectly legal and absolutely not illegal copyright infringement. 😉

He goes by the username: Ligma

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I mean I pay artists when I can. I buy and download songs from an artist I like, but for what ever reason this one track is not available to download. Stream only! I can't be sure, but I feel like I should say fuck you to netflix.

This is the shit that makes pirates.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago

If we're talking about music, go see the band and buy a shirt. That will help them like 1000000x more than paying for netflix, spotify, etc.

[–] Buffy@libretechni.ca 6 points 6 days ago

Huge middle finger to Netflix. 40% of all of my blocked DNS queries are Netflix trackers. And the real kicker is that most were coming from TVs with Netflix installed, not even signed into my account. Take from them what you can, because they're doing the same with you.

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[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

Pirating is the only way culture/media can survive in a digital capitalist world…

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 2 points 5 days ago

Pirate to archive culture, then refuse to consume it regardless in order to reduce demand and influence of Big Media

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

I've donated more to private trackers than I probably would pay for several years of a streaming service

(a private linux iso tracker, of course)

[–] falseWhite@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Pirate if I cannot afford it or it's not available in my area.

[–] F_State@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago

Show me a fellow to follow the sea, yo ho and blow the man down, it's a short little trip down to eternity, yo ho and blow the man.

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