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I think people, in general, don't care too much about whether something is legal or not when it comes to deciding whether it's actually moral or not. Things ar
by antepodius 7y ago
I think people, in general, don't care too much about whether something is legal or not when it comes to deciding whether it's actually moral or not. Things are moral or immoral whether they're legal or not.
If some corporation isn't selling the rights to view a file in your country, and it's a pain to get them the 'legal way', I think a lot of people would look at the situation and think-
"well, nobody's going to prosecute me for this. Even if I think piracy is immoral in general, this entity has made it a pain for me to get their product without pirating- they obviously aren't counting on my money. They've waived their moral right to complain about me not paying to look at their tv show- and in the lack of enforcement of the law, that moral right is all that matters to me. I'll just pirate it. If they don't want my money, they won't get it."