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Hi guys, I just wanted to call out an inappropriate term I've seen used sometimes: Civil Disobedience. It's not just civil disobedience when you pirate something privately, you need to do it publicly and dare the authorities to do something about it.

So an example here would be to set up a massive leech party and advertise it specifically as civil disobedience. Say all manner of things from all manner of copyright holders would be transmitted, and try and get news coverage. That's civil disobedience.

Just downloading a movie because you want to watch it is not. OK thanks for your time.

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[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 19 points 8 months ago

Just downloading a movie because you want to watch it is not. OK thanks for your time.

Counterpoint... Seeding is a public action... And thus me downloading it and seeding for a 6-12 months is exactly Civil Disobedience (especially on my 8gbps pipe).

[-] dillekant@slrpnk.net 11 points 8 months ago

As someone else said, that's "passive resistance" and it's fine and good. Just being a pirate is fighting the good fight.

"Having sex with your bully's mum is passive resistance; Having sex with your bully's mum while looking your bully in the eye is civil disobedience".

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