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What would you considered "Ethical Piracy" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys, first of all, I fully support Piracy. But Im writing a piece on my blog about what I might considere as "Ethical Piracy" and I would like to hear your concepts of it.

Basically my line is if I have the capacity of paying for something and is more convinient that pirating, ill pay. It happens to me a lot when I wanna watch a movie with my boyfriend. I like original audio, but he likes dub, so instead of scrapping through the web looking for a dub, I just select the language on the streaming platform. That is convinient to me.

In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something? And where is 100 justified and everybody should sail the seas instead?

I would like to hear you.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've been listening to A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and let me tell you, the music industry can fuck right off. Small indie label? I'll probably buy it, but one of the major record labels? Set sail mateys.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That intrigued me, but the shit design of the website turned me off. I can't even find the first episode. There's no list, it's blurbs of each and every episode that you have to scroll through and it only loads like 15 at a time then you have to go to the next page.

I'm not going to spend ten minutes scrolling and clicking just to find the first episode so I can try it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s never advised to listen to a podcast on its host site. 80% of them are terrible, just load the RSS up or find it on your preferred podcatcher. I say this just so you aren’t too hard on them about it. It’s very difficult to find a service that is good as both a website and as a podcast host and even “good ones” are not great UX.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It is very VERY simple to set up a functional website these days. And this is an abomination of UX. It would take hardly any effort at all to improve it with a simple chronological list of links.

I don't think I'm being too hard on them at all.