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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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[-] ram@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Any instance in which I'm purchasing through a publisher or producer. Wherein I have no reasonable belief that my money is actually going to the people who developed the work.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Do just to dig into this a little, I'm assuming that's the Apple itunes, Spotify, Amazon etc levels and probably ticketek, we're it plausible (now there's a fantasy!!).

Where do you sit with regards to the better players such as bandcamp or gog.com?

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It really depends on the particular developer right? Like, CDPR for example, whose parent company owns gog.com, pays its employees based on contractual obligation and initial sales. Beyond that, however, all money gets fed into the publisher and into the pockets of executives. Executives don't make games. Executives do next to nothing and make nothing for it. I personally consider it patently unethical to support parasites like that.