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What would you considered "Ethical Piracy" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi guys, first of all, I fully support Piracy. But Im writing a piece on my blog about what I might considere as "Ethical Piracy" and I would like to hear your concepts of it.

Basically my line is if I have the capacity of paying for something and is more convinient that pirating, ill pay. It happens to me a lot when I wanna watch a movie with my boyfriend. I like original audio, but he likes dub, so instead of scrapping through the web looking for a dub, I just select the language on the streaming platform. That is convinient to me.

In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something? And where is 100 justified and everybody should sail the seas instead?

I would like to hear you.

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[-] immibis@social.immibis.com 1 points 1 year ago

@Fleppensteijn @vis4valentine another thing to consider is whether the creators of the work actually receive anything. When you pay to watch Barbie, basically 100% of that money goes to Bob Iger or someone like that. That's what the strikes are about. When you pay to play Factorio, a lot more of the money goes to the people who made it.

[-] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

But if you get it on VHS or DVD or whatever and sell it, or even give it away, Mr Bob won't receive his cut and it's not considered piracy or stealing

[-] immibis@social.immibis.com 0 points 1 year ago

@Fleppensteijn what? They actually tried to make reselling VHSes and DVDs illegal. And of course we all know that copying them is illegal.

[-] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know about the first part. Copying isn't illegal for your own use. Either way, when receiving a copy, you're not the one doing the actual copying. This was protected by fair use until EU politicians got lobbied into banning it.