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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] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I pay for a smattering of VoD services, I don't lose sleep over watching something that isn't available on them.

If corporate greed didn't force a hundred different services on us, then it might be different.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You say you don’t want 100 different services, but do we really want all media content to be under one roof or just a few players? Consolidation is also terrible for media/art. That’s basically why so many people are against the Actibliz acquisition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@hoodatninja @majestictechie @vis4valentine @Kushan @charles Isn't it obvious? They want many players to have all of the content. Which is possible, because content doesn't run out if one service plays it too much.

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

It could also have music streaming style. Where the features of platform is the more pull then content.

Spotify supports far more range of devices. Tidal sounds so much better, deezer is slightly worse quality than tidal but for more country. YouTube music gives you add free YouTube etc.

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

All media content under all services.

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

I'd love that but it's just not realistic because of how the media publishing landscape currently is. Happy to advocate for that but moving that needle will take decades. My response is it's usually somewhere in the middle. 5-10 major players, maybe some smaller ones as well. I don't need access to literally everything ever made. Libraries already have a wonderfully large free collection as it is (for anyone reading this Hoopla is amazing and countless libraries have massive catalogs on it)

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

Sure, it's not an easy thing to achieve for sure, but I won't lose sleep over them losing revenue because they can't figure it out quickly enough.

Even moreso where it comes to media that's just not available any more. If you, a content IP owner, don't make that content available for purchase, then you have only yourself to blame if people pirate it.

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

If you, a content IP owner, don’t make that content available for purchase, then you have only yourself to blame if people pirate it.

I don’t think we are entitled to someone creative work just because they made it. That opens way too many doors.