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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] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it comes from a large corporation, its probably ethical, since they are exploiting you (or others) in an unethical way.

If it's an indie team (or one man team for that matter) then it's probably unethical.

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

If I would buy it, I consider it unethical to download it to save the money. If I wouldn't, my Utilitarianism side is kicking in and it's actually MORE ethical to pirate than not. I also see no ethical problem with trialing something even if it's indie.

I something is "I don't like enough to buy, but would play if it was freeware", that's the grey area for me. My Utilitarianism side says pirating it is the correct decision, but there's a part of me that doesn't agree.