What are your thoughts on piracy?

kfwyre
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 01:10:10 +0000

I was inspired to make this thread after seeing the very interesting side-conversation going on here.

Guiding questions:

Do you pirate media? If so, why? if not, why not?

When, if ever, do you feel pirating something is ethical?

Do you have a "code" that you follow for when it's right/not right to pirate something?

In what ways is piracy damaging, and in what ways is it beneficial?

If you used to pirate certain things and then stopped, what stopped you?

If you used to pay for access to certain things and then went back to pirating them, why did you move back?

This is a very broad and deep topic with a lot of different avenues to explore (different types of media, different regions, archives, pre-release content, law, etc.), so I'm interested in seeing what Tildes thinks.

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