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I pirate like a son-of-a-bitch.^1^ The stuff I pirate is not available where I live. There is literally zero avenues for me to purchase it.
In what meaningful (βthis word is important and doing a lot of heavy lifting, so pay close attention to it!) way are the people I'm pirating from getting harmed? As such, in what meaningful (βc.f. above for the importance of this word) way, then, is it unethical?
And if it isn't unethical it is ... ?
The Internet truly does never cease to amaze. Just not in the way that some of its louder, brasher, more uninformed, thoughtless portions think it does.
^1^ I still support lemmy.world's decision to block those communities. Yes, you can be pro-piracy, an active pirate, and still support an action that is contrary to piracy. Welcome to "nuance". It's not a native of the Internet so you don't see it very often.
Piracy bad! Won't somebody think of the multibillion dollar corporations?? T_T
I'm pirate shit too, and support this decision. One can pirate shit and still realize most people pirating shit are just people stealing.
Piracy creates a copy, it does not remove the original like theft does. Also, people have a variety of reasons to pirate. Content not available in their country, wanting to test something before buying it, already having the thing in some form,but piracy being easier...
One can steal Intellectual Property, so physicality of something isn't exactly a real argument.
No, they're violating copyright law.