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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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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] 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 3 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

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