Shit like this REALLY annoys me. I am all for a discussion of the ethics of piracy... if people actually understand what ethics are (and, as has been demonstrated countless times, people don't). But shit like this is about deciding when it is "fair" to pirate content and when not. And, considering it is Rossman, I assume he is goign to talk about how you should support companies that care about your rights or are small businesses and fuck larger businesses and the New York City government.

But the reality: Whether you think piracy is or is not stealing is irrelavent. It is piracy whether you are pirating a game from a toddler with leukemia or Amazon after they rebranded to having the website be a giant picture of Bezos's dong. It just becomes a matter of if you think that matters or if it is okay to hurt/"hurt" one of those companies.

Which almost inevitably becomes about defining The Tragedy of the Commons.

At the end of the day: it is piracy. We are pirates. Fucking own up to it.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven't kept up with Jimquisition in years. He's a Nazi now?

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"she"
She's always used "ironic" nazi imagery. Officially it is "more Soviet Union" and clearly done as a gag for some reason, but it would not be out of place to have Hugo Boss measuring her inseam while she records. Something that has irked a lot of us for... over a decade?

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I see