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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] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can distribute digital media for almost nothing, yet the way most people and companies make money of digital media is by creating incentives to not consume it. Taking part of digital media has a value and artificially creating barriers to doing this means destroying enormous amounts of value.

This is clearly a very bad system and piracy is a useful strategy for creating the possibility of something better long term and to keep companies from putting up too large barriers short term. The only reason why we have the convenience of e.g. spotify is because of piracy, without pirates we would likely have something more expensive and less accessible instead.

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

This is true.

Piracy exists as a functional alternative to corporate distribution. We are it's competitors and they should be required to innovate around making content easy to access.

When Digital Content is impractical to access; it is over-engineered and it deserves to rot on the vine