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Why do anti-piracy people often treat us as the "villains" of the story? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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

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75% of the anti-piracy discussions I see rarely blame companies like Nintendo or Disney and always try to talk about how piracy is immoral, and you should feel "dirty" for doing it. My question is why do people seem to hate those who pirate more than the bad practices of mega-corporations or the fact that they don't want to preserve their media?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I totally would

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

In this day, I'm pretty sure the entirety of the middle class and below would if they could.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

and then download a house

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That "you wouldn't download a car" became the meme while the ad itself said "you wouldn't steal a car" drives home exactly how effective these ads were at conflating the two.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NOT ONLY WOULD I DOWNLOAD A CAR, I WOULD THEN WORK ON A WAY TO LET EVERYONE DOWNLOAD CARS

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

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