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Zeus posted...

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

It wasn't against piracy per se, rather those you do it and try to claim it's NOT piracy/theft/wrong. I only now this because we have the same views on it. I don't give a good god damn if you pirate, but it comes off as suuupperr childish to pretend it's actually a totally OK thing to do.

Pretty sure we were the only two in that argument saying that it was theft but less bad than physical theft (unless I'm thinking of somebody else). Everybody else seemed to suggest it was as bad as physical theft. But now a can of worms is just being re-opened =p

I wouldn't argue that piracy is literally exactly as bad as physical theft, but I do (and always have) absolutely support the position that you ARE, in theory, costing the creator of whatever you're pirating money.

And that "No I'm not, because I was never going to pay for it anyway!" is not a valid argument, because there is literally no scenario in which you "deserve" to be able to experience a paid product for free simply because you feel overly entitled. If you were never going to pay for it, then you shouldn't be experiencing it, period.

And again, all of that being said, I retain all of those beliefs in spite of engaging in piracy. At no point have I ever attempted to justify my own actions as anything other than what they are - taking the moral and legal low-ground for convenience and to satisfy my own self-important interests.

There are reasons why I tend to see myself more through the lens of super-villainy than through pretensions of being a "good" person - I'm more than capable of knowing what I'm doing is immoral and still not giving a fuck.


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