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Piracy is Good: The Moral Imperative of Sharing Knowledge (technomagnus.vercel.app)

submitted 1 year ago by harry_h0udini911@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Piracy, in today’s context of unauthorized sharing of digital content, is wrongly condemned as immoral theft. However, it is not piracy itself that is immoral. Rather, it is the greed-driven laws and practices that censor knowledge and creative works to maximize profits. At its core, piracy is about sharing information and creative works with others, which should be seen as a moral good. 🤑

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[-] GeekFTW@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ironically, for old stuff at least, Piracy is the only way it's reliably preserved. Even if you do want to buy it new to support the creators, oft-times you can't. It's because I can't buy it that I turn to piracy. Not just for old games, but sometimes old comics and manga too. Occasionally Anime that's no longer licensed or available.

'Tis why I'm a data hoarder. Any TV show, movie, album, book, comic, video game (up to the n64 era, I'm not made of money for storage space lol), stand up comedy special, basically anything I've ever enjoyed in my life, I got that shit on disk. Anything 100% irreplaceable is backed up, but otherwise it ain't going anywhere till shit breaks.