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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Usability and user experience. I’ve been on irc, newsgroups, dc++, etc etc. hell i traded d2 items for game keys on d2jsp.

    Why? Convenient as fuck. From my perspective, fuck anyone who is gonna tell me how to consume media. Give me a better experience than i can give myself or fuck off. I’ll give my money happily (i have subscriptions) if it’s a good service. If it’s the only service, meh AND if it sucks ass well, fuck off again.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      We reject the premise of the question: the onus sits with copyright holders to justify copyright protection.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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      6 months ago

      Corpos are not people, they deserve nothing, they are entitled to nothing.

      I don’t care what the government has to say on this issue. Useless fucking whores.

    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I am pro-piracy and I actually think that’s clearly a worse question.

      Did you take something that was intended to be sold or only given with explicit permission without permission or payment? Yes? Piracy. To be clear this is completely separate from the ethical questions that surround that, but defining piracy is (generally. GENERALLY, for emphasis) not that difficult.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Believe it or not, I’ve met people like this. I know a guy who was worried about showing a movie to our Meetup group.

      Not because he was afraid of getting caught. He thought it might be unethical.

  • rolandtb303@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    if they put in DRM that makes the plugins 10x as big (looking at you, Acustica. I don’t even use their plugins because of that), or they make the legit version have some bullshit always-online “all-in-one” software (i.e Native Access) which in turn makes the software a bit of a faff to get working in Linux (to install legit libraries for legit kontakt, native access stores those libraries as .iso files and does some virtual drive fuckery a la DAMEONTools), then yes, if the pirated version is quicker to set up and run (and install libraries for), it is justified imo.

    Also i hate theaters and streaming services. I’d rather watch whatever movie I think is cool in the comfort of my PC rather than having to drive to the theater (if it’s even on there in the first place), or paying for 9000 streaming services now and only watch like a couple of things. The wait for a good webrip (even more so for a BluRay) is worth it.

  • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Everyone has already given their response so there’s nothing really to add other than, well, there’s lots of reasons to justify piracy. Most of them are even provided by the publishers / distributors themselves!

    Also it’s weird to browse the top 10 responses or even below, and NOT see this xkcd posted or even linked. What is going on, Lemmy?

  • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I am not stealing. It’s there, I take it and it’s still there. Don’t know why these posts keep popping up in piracy communities. Same plague was there on reddit too. Like seriously it’s 2025.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago
    1. It’s morally good when people access information, culture, and entertainment.
    2. It’s morally good when the author of a work gets rewarded by their work.

    Piracy is morally justified when 1 is a more pressing matter than 2. As such, it’s justified in situations like this:

    • If, in the absence of piracy, the pirate would still not pay for the goods - because #2 is set up to zero (the author of the work is not rewarded anyway).
    • If it’s impossible to obtain the goods without piracy. For example, abandonware.
    • If the author of the work would get breadcrumbs of the money used to access legally the goods, and the pirate compensates the author directly (e.g. donation).