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.
Piracy is always justified. The issue is with private property rights, which is further exacerbated by their lack of updates in the digital era.
Artists shouldn’t be dependent on distributors. Artists should be supported because they are artists and our society needs artists. Artists deserve to live and thrive whether or not they are successful, just like all people deserve.
We need to decouple the profit motive from every aspect of life and the human experience. Piracy is one such decoupling in action. It is an attempt to live by one’s own ethics instead of a corporate ethos that dictated to us, even if that is not directly the individual’s motivation.
People will say that piracy hurts the creators. But it really hurts capitalism, and capitalism then passes the pain on to the creators to disincentivize change. Alternate modes of consumption exist, but they would cause a collapse in the power/economic hierarchy which is unpalatable to those on top.