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.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yeah that was my first thought too. Anything you’ve legitimately paid for that the company then takes away or makes extremely difficult for you to access, I think it’s perfectly justified to pirate it then.

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      1 year ago

      I had this experience when while I was playing Bioshock Remastered on Steam, 2K Games in their grand wisdom decided to “update” the game after 5 years of neglect. Oh, did they fix remaining bugs or other outstanding technical problems with the game? No. Of course not. They dropped a “Quality of Life Update” to force a 2K games launcher, which immediately made the game unplayable for me because I couldn’t get the game to launch anymore. The irony.

      So anyway, I had to pirate the game I bought and transfer my saves to finish playing.