I stated this multiple times: piracy is not a crime when the alternative is to spend your money on a temporary license to access something that lives on somebod

I stated this multiple times: piracy is not a crime when the alternative is to spend your money on a temporary license to access something that lives on somebody else's computer, and that license can be revoked by the owner of the remote computer for any number of reasons. When that happens, the owner of the remote computer doesn't owe you any explanations, and you have basically wasted your money. Not only piracy is not a crime in these cases, but it should be morally encouraged. Of course I feel sorry for the creators whose work gets ripped off (and, being a creator myself, I know how much it hurts when somebody eats away my already thin profit margins). But creators have lots of distribution channels today that they can actually own (from Bandcamp, to Funkwhale, to Peertube), that they can monetize however they like, that don't throw some spare change back at them (like Google or Amazon do), and that don't encourage broken and exploitative business models. I feel like we ought to build more platforms that are actually owned by the creators in order to get out of Big Tech's grip over the creative industry - with all the distortions that come with it.