SnowPiracy is theft no matter who the creator is
Piracy is only theft if the producer is a small Indy Studio or business
Piracy isn't theft no matter who the producer is
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Second poll. Why do you pirate content
Licensing terms are hostile
Unable to justify a subscription
Don't have the money for a subscription
Don't like spending money on entertainment
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Becky@snow If you have to choose between videogames and groceries, anyone who gives you shit for pirating is an asshole.
@mezz very true
Kevin Karhan 
@snow IMHO #piracy should only be considered "#theft" [with damages being limited to the cost of properly licensing it!] if the pirated material was still offered for licensing new under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
- I.e. if a #game has been #delisted and the #platform it was released on is #EoL'd then there should be no claim to "damages" as the #IP holder did not provide a way to #license said content or otherwise comply with #copyright.
In the past, #EA did offer to replace broken discs / cartridges for a nominal fee [AFAIK €10 per disc or €15 for double-discs] if people mailed in the original (broken) media. I'd say that is should apply to everything, tho granted that only allows people in theory to deal with #DiscRot (assuming the publisher is able and willing to perpetually honour this service), not allowing them to legally attain new licenses.
- As a matter of fact #Adobe canceled #OneTimePurchase options for their #CreativeSuite after they got successfully sued into allowing people to #sell and #transfer #licenses for their #CS6 and other products.
#Valve & #Steam legally workaround this by merely providing access and not a #license per-se.
- Still, I think #piracy in almost all cases is (as GabeN correctly said:) "A services problem!" and if a product is fairly priced and then people will be willing to pay for it.
I just think that the rampant Enshittification of even #PhysicalMedia is unsustainable and I wish for an #OpenSource #competitor to #BDXL and it's #OnlineDRM!
#NotLegalAdvice #sarcasm #Copywrong #Copyright #Ownership #Enshittification
StarkRG@snow I would say it's always theft, but many companies deserve to be stolen from. If they're going to alter movies and shows after release without preserving the original, or even acknowledging that it's changed, then piracy is backup. Same goes for having shows, movies, or books removed. Also, making just about everything exclusive to one of seven or eight different services is terrible.
Then there's the morality of financially supporting severely unethical companies like Amazon.
@snow Oh, and the production of media should be kept separate from the distribution and, if a streaming service can't retain customers by providing the best user experience, then it deserves to fail. In fact, if I can provide a significantly better streaming experience by installing jellyfin, which I can and have done, then I don't see why I should pay for a worse experience and still not get everything I want to watch.
Ygor@snow
"Piracy" (copyright infringement), isn't the same as theft, since nothing is being subtracted from anyone. As for whether it is "wrong", I think it's bad to freeload when you're given the option to pay for your DRM-free copy and you can afford it. Otherwise, I don't have a problem with it.
"Piracy" (copyright infringement), isn't the same as theft, since nothing is being subtracted from anyone. As for whether it is "wrong", I think it's bad to freeload when you're given the option to pay for your DRM-free copy and you can afford it. Otherwise, I don't have a problem with it.
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