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It is always morally acceptable to pirate things made by giant corporations (feddit.org)
submitted 7 hours ago by ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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No, it's not like stealing a physical item from a store.

"stealing" a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you're stealing from a store is infinitely copyable. Like the replicator from star trek...or that one episode of Sabrina the teenage witch with that box that can make a perfect copy of everything you put inside of it.

Of course I personally would never pirate anything, no matter how much streaming services increase their prices or how much they crack down on VPN usage to get around geo-restrictions, PIRACY IS BAD AND ONLY BAD PEOPLE DO IT.

I've never pirated anything in my whole life!

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 40 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

No, it’s not like stealing a physical item from a store.

I'd argue stealing physical items from massive corporations is also morally acceptable. If you shoplift from a small mom & pop store, you're actively hurting your community, however, if you shoplift from Wal-Mart, you're actively hurting an entity which is hurting your community, therefore helping your community.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 17 points 5 hours ago

Shoplifting from Walmart hurts my knees because the boss won't believe that our onhand numbers are wrong and makes me check high and low before I can nil pick it 🥲

This isn't an ethical argument against shoplifting btw, this is an ethical argument in favor of nuking Walmart

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago

Staling sustinence from societal cancer is practically an immune response.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

If you shoplift from a small mom & pop store, you're actively hurting your community

Unless you're part of a riot, then it's okay.

[–] yozul@beehaw.org 4 points 2 hours ago

Terrible bait. I'm disappointed.