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
  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • LeHappStick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I will do it regardless of what people think of it, I don’t care if it is deemed ‘‘moral’’ or not.

    • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.