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I'll go straight to the point:

  • Piracy is useful to bypass regional frontiers and access to censored content
  • Piracy is helpful to watch content without supporting it if you consider it not worth of it
  • Piracy might be helpful for content preservation and survival
  • Piracy is useful to ACTUALLY evaluate whether to spend money on some digital content or not
  • Piracy is sometimes the only way to actually own DRM-protected content
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[-] iso 48 points 1 year ago

There's another one: access to media while in poverty

[-] RedCanasta@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Access to culture itself if you think about it

fuckin well said.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

This is basically why I do it. I can’t afford streaming services, especially since you need multiple these days. I used to just use Netflix back when it was a good option. It was cheap and good enough to be worth it.

If I didn’t pirate it, I wouldn’t be able to consume it at all at this point, it’s that simple.

But despite my own self being in poverty, most of the people I know are not, so by talking to them about the media I watched free, and getting them to consume it as well, it increases the chances of the company profiting anyway. Just not off me.

These companies think they are losing out on money due to piracy, but they aren’t. They just assume we’d all pay for it if we didn’t have a choice. They don’t seem to realize sometimes it’s about not being able to pay, not just not wanting to pay. There’s no additional money to be had from a lot of us.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I just listened to the Pirate Bay episode of Darknet Diaries, and I had never considered this. I couldn’t agree more.

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