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

submitted 2 years 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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[-] Morgikan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Okay, I would say my argument probably breaks down at small individual projects. For larger corporations though I think it's still stands true. Anyone who's worked in JIRA is probably familiar with the status "Won't Fix". For essentially any bug incoming you would weigh the user impact versus the revenue impact. You prioritize based on severity but also prioritize based on revenue. Your Sprint cycles by very nature can't be oriented to producing the best possible product if the best possible product is only what makes you the most money.

EDIT: I would also say that this largely depends on how you define what a good product is. Is a good product one that makes you a lot of money? Is a good product one that is high functioning and provides good use?