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Why do anti-piracy people often treat us as the "villains" of the story? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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75% of the anti-piracy discussions I see rarely blame companies like Nintendo or Disney and always try to talk about how piracy is immoral, and you should feel "dirty" for doing it. My question is why do people seem to hate those who pirate more than the bad practices of mega-corporations or the fact that they don't want to preserve their media?

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[–] quirzle@programming.dev 89 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I blame the "piracy is stealing" advertising/propaganda. It was super effective, given that we all remember it.

Editing to add one of my favorite videos in the other direction, Copying is Not Theft.

[–] odium@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't remember ever seeing such an advertisement in my life.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR

[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I totally would

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

In this day, I'm pretty sure the entirety of the middle class and below would if they could.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

and then download a house

[–] quirzle@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

That "you wouldn't download a car" became the meme while the ad itself said "you wouldn't steal a car" drives home exactly how effective these ads were at conflating the two.

[–] xep@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

NOT ONLY WOULD I DOWNLOAD A CAR, I WOULD THEN WORK ON A WAY TO LET EVERYONE DOWNLOAD CARS

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sharing is caring ♥️

[–] quirzle@programming.dev 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You've never seen this? Never heard "home taping is killing music" or "don't copy that floppy"?

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

No to all of those. I don't remember ever seeing a floppy. Oldest media formats I remember using are cds and cassettes. And that was in elementary school.

ig the piracy is theft advertising was more of a 90s thing that died down in the 2000s if those are your examples?

[–] quirzle@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I guess so. Best I can recall, most people I knew were either avid pirates or casually saw it as low-level criminal activity by the early 2000s.