On civil disobedience
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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"Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority)."
You are incorrect and this post is wrong.
I feel bad for anyone who walks away from this thinking "civil disobedience only applies to things you do publicly."
It's not very active or professed if you do it privately with existing tools.
I want to speak with your English teacher.