Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 358 points –

Well, my friend, he's kinda poor he can't afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don't understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the author or just wants to skim through it, he will download the book.

He usually doesn't like to pirate from small companies or professors who are trying to make a living by selling books, but from millionaires & plenty of mega corps which already have loads of money, he feels like it's the right move to pirate

Also, have you ever noticed that you have felt that the value of a product has decreased just because you didn't pay for it, thus you are less interested to read it? i.e., had you paid for the book, you would have more likely read that book.

He says he will buy stuff when his time is more valuable than money, let's all hope that day is soon.

What are your piracy habits?

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Yes I pirate everything.

I don't really understand the justification question. What is there to be justified? I'm not hurting or harming anyone.

Supporting content creators by paying for access is just idiocy.

It's a bit like disabling your ad blocker to pay content creators by viewing ads - happy to let idiots do that on my behalf.

You know, I don't mind pirating at all, but people with your mindset are just disgusting. How about you're a little grateful to the "idiots"?

That's my point though. Thinking your subscription fees are rewarding content creators is daft.

Does this apply to Patreon? I don't think of that as daft. I think many content creators rely on it.

No, I support a few podcasts on patreon. Payments direct to creators is a much better model and I'm happy to support it. I meant "subscription fee" as in streaming services.

If you're supporting someone on Patreon, you're not really purchasing their content from a third party, are you?

I was really replying to the subscription fee comment. I can imagine a scenario where someone is subscribing to a CC's Patreon but pirating their content (or just streaming it without ads with an ad blocker). ETA: So that the CC solely gets the money, not the publisher/hosting service.