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“Piracy” is a propaganda term. We shouldn’t use it. There is nothing wrong with sharing files.
So you don't mind when companies share files with your personal data?
But personal files are... personal?
Research journals are published. Public.
He's clearly talking about piracy in general. The point being that just because something is a file, it doesn't mean it isn't intellectual property.
I do agree that in some scenarios piracy is fighting bad actors, like in this case, but it isn't a generalized rule, piracy also has a bad side.
So this guy comes here and defends the general idea of piracy based on a single instance in which it is actually good, which is just a fallacy.