Where’s “I’m struggling to get by and I don’t want to give thieving corporations any more of my money than they already get.”

I don’t know any pirates, but I sure do know a lot of people that share copies of files on the internet.

Stealing is obviously a dumb analogy, it doesn’t remove the ownership from the original owner.

You are selling computers, I buy one then I find a way to replicate the computers you are selling and I give them away for free, it makes me a thief? or the end consumer a thief?

Originality and work is definitely yours, so it’s definitely a gray area, but quite an exaggeration to call it theft.

Last point is the related studies that people pirating are either getting it for free or never paying for it anyways.

Paying for DRM-free quality content https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ and pirating the rest. Also promoting the concept of Big Content from Chokepoint Capitalism https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/

I know I’m not putting a dent in anyone’s bottom line because my alternative to piracy isn’t paying, it’s just not consuming. If I want to support artists or encourage them to make more content, I’ll buy hard copies, go to a movie theater, or see a live show.

i’m falling out of love with the game piracy scene now because this anti-denuvo hypervisor shit is insanely dangerous and everyone is just going right along with it. if this becomes the default way they ship pirated games without cracking them then i guess that’s the end of pirating games for me

Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.

“What are you, a cop?”

It is only theft when taken from someone who needs it more

I saw a lot of comments talking about including “I pirate cuz I like free shit”. I was gonna but I couldn’t find a template with an extra spot :(