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I think there is a large class of people who have no moral objections to piracy. The only reason why they pay for something like netflix or itunes is because of
by joeyo 15y ago
I think there is a large class of people who have no moral objections to piracy. The only reason why they pay for something like netflix or itunes is because of convenience. That is, they are paying for the convenience, not the content. Therefore if the price goes up, and exceeds whatever value they are pricing that convenience, they naturally revert to other methods of getting the content (i.e. piracy).
So stealing is not ok because they didn't follow lean business principles--stealing was okay in the first place. It was just a happy coincidence that using netflix wasn't stealing.
- phamilton 15y agoI like how the OP of this comment thread is going to continue with half the service, and pirate the rest. Nice doubled standard on the morality of piracy. The thing is, pirating is more convenient than DVDs. Keeping streaming (which is more convenient that torrents) and then torrenting what isn't available on streaming seems to be the most convenient move.
- 18pfsmt 15y agoThis was in no way motivated by a moral consideration on my part. I do not see it in the moral context at all. This was an issue only because of convenience and ease of use for my significant other.