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Personally as one of those pirates they are trying to stop piracy is only an issue when your content is not easily accessible the legal way or it is too expensi
by Fuxy 13y ago
Personally as one of those pirates they are trying to stop piracy is only an issue when your content is not easily accessible the legal way or it is too expensive.
I have experienced both. For instance songs are very cheap when your monthly income over £1,500 but when your monthly income is £300 (that's the equivalent in pounds in the country i grew up in) that's a bit too much for just one song.
Same for everything else since they're all price for the US,UK,etc market.
Now that i can afford it i choose to pay for the content i like (it's my way of encouraging the people creating the things i like) even though i could still pirate it.
Then again I'm still forced to pirate some things that can't get legally.
Wish i didn't have to but it's not like their giving me a choice.
- tesmar2 13y ago> forced You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- wernercd 13y agoDepends... He could live somewhere that he can't get access to legal copies of TV shows he wants to watch (Some TV shows take months, if ever, to show up locally). Or live somewhere like Australia where everything costs prohibitively more than elsewhere. If I want a TV show - Say House of Cards - and it's not available, or it's available much later than elsewhere, or it's prohibitively more pricey... They want the show and the only reasonable way to get it... then it will "force" people who want it to Piracy.
- k-mcgrady 13y ago>> "They want the show and the only reasonable way to get it... then it will "force" people who want it to Piracy." I would very much like a Ferrari California. It's unlikely I will ever be able to afford one - it is prohibitively expensive for me. I am not being forced to steal it. I understand like a rational human being should that if I can't afford something or it isn't available to me and it isn't essential to my survival I have no right to take it. I know that physical theft analogies aren't very good when comparing to piracy but seriously - you are not being forced to do anything. You make a choice to steal it. Whether that's morally right or wrong is your decision to make.
- talmand 13y agoNo, I think it's more the role of the victim of the theft to decide whether it was morally wrong or not. Otherwise, yes, this idea of being "forced" to pirate something they want but don't have easy access to seems a rather silly statement.
- angersock 13y agoFirst, the show is being given away for free elsewhere--it is mere accident of geography that the person can't access it. Second, stealing implies that the person being stolen from can't access it anymore--which is clearly not the case here. Stealing is the wrong framework to use here.
- jonhendry 13y agoYou seem to have confused "wants" with "needs".
- staticelf 13y agoI totally agree with your statements. The only thing I pirate nowadays are basically movies because there is no easy way to purchase them. I don't really pay for music though as I use mostly Grooveshark/Soundcloud and/or listen to online radio. And it's fucking ridiculous that you have to a saloon to watch a new movie and pay a ridiculous amount of money per person to watch a single movie. I pirate all movies I can out of basic principal, they are not getting a dime extra from me since they continue with their harassment. I am actually very pleased with Steam as it's an excellent service. But if I would want to play a game on let's say Origin I would definately pirate that game if it doesn't exist on Steam.
- talmand 13y agoSo, content providers are "harassing" you in some way by not making it easy for you to purchase their content or they want to charge what you personally feel is too much? You pirate because they "harass" you? That's a new defense of pirating for me. Do they target you specifically with this harassment or is it just in general for the population of where you live?
- jscheel 13y agoYou are NEVER forced to steal things that aren't essential to survival. Starving on the street and steal a loaf a bread, that's one thing. Don't want to participate in many varied ways of listen to music for free legally and so choosing to steal the next big album you want to hear, not ok, ever.
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- psionski 13y agoYou are NEVER forced to steal bread. Don't want to participate in gathering seeds and wild fruits for free legally and choosing to steal bread, not ok, ever. I guess "essential" has many definitions, huh...
- untog 13y agoCome on, they're not in any way comparable.
- jellicle 13y agoThe UN declaration of human rights includes one sentence talking about the right to food, and many paragraphs talking about the right to participate in culture, community, communicate, and so on. So if we judge by that, the right to participate in culture is more important than the right to food (or more likely, is simply more often challenged and disagreed with). If the whole legal regime around copyright is having the effect of preventing people from participating in their culture/society, those laws are immoral and should be opposed.
- talmand 13y agoWait, are you implying that the UN has declared that stealing the results of someone's labor is justified because it's a "right"? We might as well declare anarchy and get it over with. I also fail to see how copyright laws are preventing anyone from enjoying their culture.