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

submitted 1 year ago by harry_h0udini911@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] RedCanasta@lemmy.fmhy.ml 40 points 1 year ago

Agree 100% and I've been seeing this "debate" in other instances and communities recently

Piracy is moral and ethical. Small businesses are not the targets. I would download a car, I would download a better life if I could

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You guys are deranged... Every movie you download had huge amounts of work behind it, those people need money too.

Sure, a studio makes hundreds of millions making a shitty marvel movie, but it does still legitimately cost them tens of millions to make - they just make revolting middle of the road crap so it sells to idiots everywhere.

That's why there's no good movies any more - it's too risky to tell a good story, now that we're all pirating them

The instant there's no money in it, you'll see there will be no movies made (and that's precisely why the last 20 years of movies have generally been rubbish).

The studios are fine, and by all means steal Deadpool 53 or whatever off them, but don't pretend you're being noble in the process.

At least own up that it's theft.

Similarly - It takes real skill and experience to make and record music (and if anything that's gotten a while lot cheaper than it used to be!), but the artists that aren't in the radio would be gutted to hear your downloading it.

That's also why merch is so important to a bands bottom line - it's got away less middle men in the line taking a cut

[-] style99@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Theft is when you deprive someone of one of their possessions. How is sharing content the same as doing that? The only "theft" going on here is content producers trying to steal the meaning of the word theft.

If people need compensation for their content production (and they really should) then that can be provided for by patronage, by donations, by society in general. Putting the round peg of that responsibility into the square hole of each person "consuming" the content makes zero sense in the grand scheme of things.

[-] DeepNorthRadiant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Absolutely agree. I did audio engineering work briefly a few years back, and cannot in good conscience say that piracy is theft when these producers are robbing the masses blind with predatory pricing and unnecessarily restrictive "fair-use" regulations.

Those who create good products will benefit from it, all things considered piracy isn't going to be a vessel for the destruction of that anytime soon.