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You have decided for yourself that what you are doing doesn’t harm anybody, which is very convenient for you. Others have decided that’s not the case, and went

You have decided for yourself that what you are doing doesn’t harm anybody, which is very convenient for you. Others have decided that’s not the case, and went through the democratic process to enshrine their position into law. As far as I’m concerned, their position is far more legitimate than yours, because they followed the law and Constitution. You, on the other hand, rationalize lawlessness and selfishness and do whatever you want. I’m actually in favor of drastically limiting copyright. But when pirates engage in such lawless behavior and rationalizations, it makes the idea almost impossible as a credible political project. Piracy does far more harm to reforming copyright than you apparently can see. You’ll never be able to build a political coalition through insolence. Because I can guarantee you, the insolence doesn’t end even if copyright was successfully reformed to meet your expectations. Pirates would still engage in piracy, because it’s never been about principles; it’s about pirates not wanting to pay money for things they want. They would still rationalize their behavior with self-serving notions like “I’m not hurting anyone”.

SantalBlush 4y ago
People enshrined slavery into law as well, and that law was unethical even before it was overturned. Your argument easily fails, no matter how many times you repeat it.
Retric 4y ago
You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that I pirating anything when I don’t. I have a well justified moral argument which you again try to ignore. I don’t want to reform copyright I want to end it because the harm exists if copyright is for 70 years or 70 days the same incentives exist. Look at divorce rates for an idea of just how harmful copyright is. As to the law being some meaningful moral guideline read up on civil asset forfeiture or slavery both of which where enshrined by the near democratic institutions you hold up as somehow an arbiter of what is just.

SantalBlush 4y ago

People enshrined slavery into law as well, and that law was unethical even before it was overturned. Your argument easily fails, no matter how many times you repeat it.

Retric 4y ago

You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that I pirating anything when I don’t. I have a well justified moral argument which you again try to ignore. I don’t want to reform copyright I want to end it because the harm exists if copyright is for 70 years or 70 days the same incentives exist. Look at divorce rates for an idea of just how harmful copyright is. As to the law being some meaningful moral guideline read up on civil asset forfeiture or slavery both of which where enshrined by the near democratic institutions you hold up as somehow an arbiter of what is just.