Prior_Industry

Of course it is and you’re also not physically going somewhere to steal the content it’s just ones and zeros that are landing on your storage device.

I can certainly agree with the argument that the content owners create an environment that makes piracy more likely to occur, but they are just making a judgement that current subscribers will keep paying higher fees and that some piracy will occur from those that won’t pay.

But those that do pirate making out that have moral justification for doing so is bullshit.

I use a pihole.

What I won’t do is write a diatribe about how what I am doing isn’t going to deprive websites of a ad impression or that the websites deserve it because of how many ads whey paste across their site. I do it because it’s simple for me to setup on my network I have control of and it makes my browsing expriance better, I fully accept that if everyone acted like me then most websites will end up behind a full paywall.

Its people who pretend what they are doing is justified and moral over just being easy to do with nominal risk to themselves. Just own it bro, that’s all I ask. You do it because you can, it’s easy and you’re unlikely to get caught.

That’s a different argument though. If you have paid for a license to the content and they remove the distribution method or kill the drm that allows access to it. I’d say it’s fair game that you find an “alternative” copy of the content or work around to keep access to what you paid for. Unless you are knowingly buying it on a 1 off rental basis.

Don’t get me wrong, the current system is not weighted in the consumers favour at all and it’s a good reason to not play the game and avoid netflix, buy drm free computer games, etc but I just object to the argument the people who pirate are somehow noble robinhoods in a legally sound position. You’re still knowingly accessing something that someone paid to create and you’re gaining a benefit from that in entertainment. You’re just finding a way to justify doing so that sits right with your own moral code.

If everyone pirated, the entertainment industry would cease to exist or at least be greatly reduced the remaining people would only be doing it as a hobby. Big budget moves and TV series, AAA computer games would no longer find funding if no one at the consumer end is paying for it.

“If I couldn’t easily grab it off the table and walk away with it ,I wouldn’t have stolen it.”

Screw the media companies for the price gouging and being general dicks dragging people through the courts, but it’s still knowingly working around and accessing content that someone else paid to create. I dunno why people can’t be honest “I did it because it was easy and the chances of being caught were nominal. The risk / reward was in my favour”.

Because people have become comfortable enough (can’t remember the downside) to flirt with populism.

Once they get the short sharp shock of what it actually means to be governed by these people we might recover from it… Maybe