No, it’s not like stealing a physical item from a store.

“stealing” a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you’re stealing from a store is infinitely copyable. Like the replicator from star trek…or that one episode of Sabrina the teenage witch with that box that can make a perfect copy of everything you put inside of it.

Of course I personally would never pirate anything, no matter how much streaming services increase their prices or how much they crack down on VPN usage to get around geo-restrictions, PIRACY IS BAD AND ONLY BAD PEOPLE DO IT.

I’ve never pirated anything in my whole life!

There are people who understand what I’m saying…but apparently most people don’t get it.

Of course that means I still would never pirate anything. That would be horrible to “steal” a copy of a movie or a TV show

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    Pirates constantly trying to “morally” justify their action is by far the worst part of all pirate forums.

    Its embarrassing how many pirates need the validation of strangers on the internet.

    Isn’t there a philosophy forum that these people could spam instead?

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      It’s good because otherwise we would have only shady characters and kids and that would be even more annoying to read. We have this illusion of doing something right, part of some greater philosophical stance and thanks to it you can read the comments without digging through slurs. The piracy forums are usually very hard on the eyes.

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        I mean people could just stick to actually discussing piracy instead of how people feel about piracy.

        The community is a massive echo chamber. Its not like there is a vocal minority seriously arguing piracy is immoral or unethical. So its just copy pasta of a million other posts.

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          As I said I am glad they do that instead of some other things that often fly in the space where we don’t care about the morals at all. Those places are tiresome and draining much more than some random philosophy post. Good, if they think about those things that means they are human. Someone who no longer cares about anything what they do and its effects and consequences is truly lost and more like an animal than a human.

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              I am not super good at text communication with strangers online in non native language, I am afraid we will not understand each other properly this time

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      Pirates commenters constantly trying to “morally” justify their action opinion is by far the worst part of all pirate forums.

      Its embarrassing how many pirates commenters need the validation of strangers on the internet.

      Isn’t there a philosophy forum that these people could spam instead?

      Ftfy