What are the ethics of Piracy?

style99 , 19 minutes ago

The true piracy is when people label it “piracy” in the first place. They are hijacking a loaded word in a transparent attempt to make normal activity sound wrong before we’re even allowed to talk about it.

db0 OP , 7 minutes ago

That hijack is one of their worst blunders though as pirates are very romanticized in culture. They just made us look way cooler than the computer nerds we are.

Noxious , 23 minutes ago

Corporations steal from us all the time, and they don't even let us buy their content, they only sell limited access that can be revoked at any time (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/9531016 or https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12904663). Under these circumstances, there are no ethical issues with piracy.

melroy , 1 hour ago (edited 57 minutes ago)

Old games & ROMs can only still be played and retrieved due to piracy. Otherwise most of these kind of games will no longer be here. And soon archive.org will kill themselves due to all the e-book and software drama.. And we end up with nothing, the future generation will no longer have access to all those files, games from the 80, 90, 00's etc.

chottomatte , 24 minutes ago

I don’t think piracy would end soon though , but it’s more likely that it will be more active in countries that don’t have hardened kind of copyright laws compared to the countries who have it

SolarPunker , 1 hour ago

Thanks! I was looking for something like this 👍

db0 OP , 1 hour ago

if so, then check the other posts in that series.

zaknenou , 1 hour ago (edited 1 hour ago)

it is hard to make sense of ethics in a world that is wrong
especially when the ones enforcing ethics are the same ones contributing to this wrong-ness

EDIT: also wow, 12 years ago

db0 OP , 1 hour ago

I’ve been at this a long time 😅