I do think you should give money to smaller creators, if you have it, but i don't think thats super controversial, pirating is most effective against the billionares.
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Forget effectiveness, the little guys rarely screw you over for their own greed.
True dat
Access to media that companies arbitrarily remove to cut costs in their billion dollar company.
Access to media since companies refuse to put out physical versions now in the age of streaming.
There's another one: access to media while in poverty
Access to culture itself if you think about it
Not this again. This discussion was spammed on Reddit continuously, there’s no need to.
Everyone has their own opinion on it. You’re on pirate community, we all pirate. That’s it.
I still like to know why people pirate.
Can you even buy ebooks these days without going though Amazon? Aside from an incredibly small amount of indie authors (who probably got kicked from Amazon for unknowingly pissing off some algorithm) there's no place to download them and support the authors.
Piracy is moral as long as it doesn't hurt actual people, corporations don't count
Piracy is not immoral, but if it's too widespread it can destroy opportunities for people creating things to get paid for creating things, and so they may not be able to continue doing so. And that just makes the world worse.
Try to find a way to support the people that make stuff that you love. For example I won't pirate music from small bands, I only pirate games if they have onerous DRM or something (never indie games), and I'll only pirate books if they're ridiculously overpriced and I can't get a standalone DRM free version.
Just cos you're a pirate doesn't mean you can't have morals.
Gotta love itch.io bundles for shopping indie games on a tight budget.
When you purchase digital media, you're purchasing a method to get past DRM to access the content. Nothing more.
When you pirate digital media, you're using other means to acquire a method to get past DRM to access the content. Nothing more.
We've decided arbitrarily that some methods of getting past DRM are better than others despite the result being the same.
You can't purchase digital media. All you're allowed to purchase is a revokable license to consume it under some corporation's terms.
I will do it regardless of what people think of it, I don't care if it is deemed ''moral'' or not.
They dont think it be moral, but it do.