Instead you could stop making shitty movies and reheating successful recipes. And stop inventing three new streaming services every week.

What about a meta streaming service. One subscription for everything and companies get paid by the share of the views their shoes had. Maybe make your own fronts for your services if you insist, but everything is accessible through one subscription.

I’m so tired of getting shit on by corporations to later read I’m the problem. People are sick of this shit. Stop being assholes and people will happily pay for your content! I want to pay for things I enjoy, but I just cancelled Netflix because they suck so fucking hard.

Not sure I get the “You make a bad product so I feel justified in stealing it” argument.

Piracy isn’t stealing if buying isn’t owning.

So it’s okay to keep a rental car because you don’t own it and it’s therefore not stealing?

It’s ok to make a 1:1 copy of the rental car without depriving the company of the car in any way

So a writer spends a year of his life writing a book with the idea that he can sell copies for $15 each so that, if he sells enough copies, he can make that year’s time worthwhile. But you think it’s okay to just make a copy for free since he still has his original?

Yes. I was never going to buy it anyway. He didn’t lose anything. At least this way, his art is consumed and discussed, potentially generating a sale. BTW, you are absolutely wasting your time here. People in this community obviously have a very different perspective on this than you do. You’ll have to either accept that, or become increasingly frustrated that your arguments fall flat with this particular audience

At least now we’ve gotten to the common understanding that it is theft, but you just don’t care. I personally think copyright laws have been good for our society because they’ve allowed people to live off of creating art. You obviously have a different view.

I’m not at all frustrated by the conversation - it’s like discussing car registration or driver’s licenses with a SovCit. In fact, it’s pretty much exactly like that. It’s interesting for me to see how you rationalize your view, but I don’t expect you to change your mind.

Still not theft.

Sure it is. You’re taking something that isn’t yours without paying for it.

The ordinary rules don’t apply to corporations, and we’re suckers if we play by ordinary rules.

That’s why ‘shoplifting’ from Kroger, ‘robbing’ a Bank of America branch, ‘stealing’ cable TV from Xfinity, or ‘pirating’ movies or music from Columbia or Universal is not morally wrong. Quite the opposite, it’s the right thing to do.