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Piracy is not immoral (sometimes) (feddit.it)

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

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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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta love itch.io bundles for shopping indie games on a tight budget.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

There's the Google play store. I still prefer physical books though