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If we are clear about terminology it’s less misleading. Unauthorized use of software downloaded from the internet is copyright infringement, not “piracy”. It i
by jacobolus 6y ago
If we are clear about terminology it’s less misleading. Unauthorized use of software downloaded from the internet is copyright infringement, not “piracy”.
It is similar to making a xerox copy of a book obtained from the library, recording a rented video on a new videocassette tape, making an unauthorized recording at a music concert, or typing code you found in Numerical Recipes into your own open source project.
It is not at all similar to boarding a ship and robbing the passengers.
- whakim 6y agoThat may be the case, but much of the "piracy is justified" crowd seems to rely on an "ends-justify-the-means" approach to suggest that piracy is great. If everyone pirated software (or if even a significant portion of people did), it'd be much harder to make money off of building software. I say this as someone who has pirated plenty of software in my life. I just didn't delude myself into thinking that I wasn't doing something wrong.
- imtringued 6y agoI'm having a dejavu but literally everyone who justifies piracy does it for the benefit of those who are dependent on it. People who have money don't care and just use the most convenient option.