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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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I'll go straight to the point:

  • Piracy is useful to bypass regional frontiers and access to censored content
  • Piracy is helpful to watch content without supporting it if you consider it not worth of it
  • Piracy might be helpful for content preservation and survival
  • Piracy is useful to ACTUALLY evaluate whether to spend money on some digital content or not
  • Piracy is sometimes the only way to actually own DRM-protected content
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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not this again. This discussion was spammed on Reddit continuously, there’s no need to.

Everyone has their own opinion on it. You’re on pirate community, we all pirate. That’s it.

[–] stappern@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pirating is definitely not the right word though.personally I never attacked a boat so I never engaged in piracy.

[–] milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Don't know if you knew this but the word piracy has two meanings

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The only fact of the matter is does the creator get credit and whether their material needs are met. Everything else must be justified. There is virtually no media piracy that harms the first two.

[–] InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I still like to know why people pirate.