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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
There's also that meme about where if you buy a DVD of a movie, you put the disc in then have to go through dozen unskippable warnings, trailers for other movies, etc. With piracy, you download the movie and then play it.
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There's definitely an aspect of vindictiveness to piracy. "If you're going to treat me like a criminal either way, at least give me the benefit of getting the content for free, first."
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Originally Posted by kandwo
Until these practices change I see it almost as my moral duty to pirate. "Vote with your dollar", yes, that's what I'm doing.
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I once watched an interesting libertarian debate about copyright and patents, and the pro side (that we should abolish them) contended that the system is so corrupt that we have a moral duty to defy it by pirating everything possible. The real kicker was that he was a patent lawyer.
I guess spending his professional life rolling around in the muck gave him a distaste for it.