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Piracy is Good: The Moral Imperative of Sharing Knowledge (technomagnus.vercel.app)

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Piracy, in today’s context of unauthorized sharing of digital content, is wrongly condemned as immoral theft. However, it is not piracy itself that is immoral. Rather, it is the greed-driven laws and practices that censor knowledge and creative works to maximize profits. At its core, piracy is about sharing information and creative works with others, which should be seen as a moral good. 🤑

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[-] FiftyShadesOfMyCow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You are right, albeit a little rude, but that’s not the point of this debate. Piracy is a necessary “evil” to either get paywalled digital products or to preserve and archive deprecated media.

Wether society deems it immoral and illegal or not is irrelevant. The keypoint in piracy is to operate and remain in the shadows to minimize awareness and action taken against us.

To publicly glorify it is counterintuitive. The people that do so are compromising us all. The best course of action to take for piracy is to do nothing. Nothing that further alerts other adversaries to take action against us.

Sail in the night.

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, exactly, piracy is fine as long as it isn't widespread. But these wackos are saying that everything should be free because copying isn't stealing.

A little piracy? Nobody cares. A lot of piracy? No good, industries collapse.

It is immoral because it is stealing, even if they can take the loss, it is still stealing. Stealing is wrong in most cases.

[-] FiftyShadesOfMyCow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly. Some people are a little ignorant, and that’s completely fine and understandable. Humans aren’t all the same. Some like to educate themselves about a certain topic, while others learn something else.

That is perfectly okay. We should ultimately respect everyone’s opinions (Only reasonable opinions based on their current level of knowledge) because it’s not in everyone’s interest to know everything about, say, pirating.

Some like to glorify it and publicy fight for it, because they don’t know any better or are just like that.

Furthermore, you and I know that the vast majority of us, pirates, sails discreetly. Most know that for the system to remain easily pirate-able, it’s prudent to do so hidden in the shadows.

The key is to blend in with the crowd. You are just one ordinary person among many. You don’t draw attention to yourself.

“That’s the [Pirate Sailor] way to learn.”