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You've already paid for it. Just download it from somewhere else with a clean conscience.
by matheusmoreira 4mo ago
You've already paid for it. Just download it from somewhere else with a clean conscience.
- butlike 4mo agoBonus points if you do this while retaining the original copy.
- ragazzina 4mo agoYou paid for it, but you never bought it. So you would still not have a clean conscience.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoIf you paid for it, then not a single person in the world can ever accuse you of "stealing" from creators, or of failing to support them. They named the price, and the price was paid. The licensing and rent seeking shenanigans of corporations and their lawyers are utterly irrelevant.
- a96 4mo agoPractically infinite number of persons in law enforcement and blackmail businesses absolutely would accuse you.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoI meant normal people, not the enforcers of monopolistic laws that were bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists.
- ragazzina 4mo agoHaving a clean conscience depends on one's internal moral values, not from what the rest of the world accuses of. If one's moral compass would feel the need to having paid for it to feel satisfied, it would also need to having bought it.
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoCopyright is an absurd monopoly, tolerated because it is among the least bad ways to to compensate creators for their work. Therefore, if you have compensated creators, you are morally in the clear, objectively, no matter what else you do.