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So this virtue signalling travelled from Reddit to lemmy too huh
Piracy, is a reaction to corpo greed. It challenges the notion that essential tools, education, and entertainment should be locked behind paywalls many can't afford. It pushes back against monopolies that exploit consumers with inflated prices, restrictive DRM, and predatory subscription models. When corporations prioritize profits over people, piracy becomes a form of resistance--a way to reclaim access to what should be available to all regardless of economic background or means.
Piracy isn't about harming small indie creators or stealing their work. To call it virtue signaling is to completely miss the point, lil bro. If that's the way you think you're not a Pirate you're just a thief.
EDIT: The reading comprehension here seems incredibly low. Corporations aren't people--piracy isn't theft because you can't steal IP from corporations. My post doesn't remotely suggest that Piracy is theft from corporations. Piracy from indie creators, however, is theft because it harms a person, not a corporation.
It's not a difficult concept.
Piracy isn't theft though.
That's exactly what corporations want people to think about piracy.
In addition to what you wrote, piracy is also a form of dissent against copyright laws.
Why would you reply without reading my entire post? Like why? What do you get out of it?
If you're not stealing digital media from corporations when you download without paying, you're not stealing from indie creators when you're doing the same. Have some consistency in your justification at least.
You arent stealing but you are also not paying yet still consume it.
How would you feel if I'd copy a cake recipe you inherited from your grandmother and sell the cake without giving you any royalties.
I just copied the recipe that was standing on the table.
You havent lost anything but could still gain.
We support small/indie creators because they actually need it. Big corpos will be just fine with the money the normies or those that can't be bothered pay.
Reread my post. You didn't do a good enough job the first time.
Dude, either taking something without paying is theft, or it isn't...you're making an arbitrary distinction for the sake of your own moral or something IDK.
Just like everything else in life, it's not a binary situation. You can't say "either it is, or isn't stealing! Circumstance doesn't matter!" because circumstance always matter.
If you come at me with the intent to kill me, and I kill you in self defense, that's not murder. It would be wholly ignorant to say "well you tried to kill the guy who was trying to kill you, so it's murder! Circumstance doesn't matter!" That would be the answer of a child.
The argument of Piracy has never been one of "oh, well, it's not theft." Of course its theft. You'd have to be in deep denial to make that argument. It's not your IP. The argument of Piracy is that taking shit from corpos doesn't fucking matter--no one is getting hurt. As soon as you stop taking from corpos and taking from the little guy, like indie artists, you're just a fuckin' thief. And that's not moral.
Yea you have to be 12. Like the others said, what exactly am I stealing? Anyways it's clear you are a newgen and are quite reactionary. Keep reacting.
Reread my post. You didn't do a good enough job the first time.