Basically: should i care about ethics?
Basically: should i care about
ethicscapitalist ideology?No.
The system is literally genociding people, destroying the planet, etc. It’s a major mistake to take their “ethics” seriously. It’s just another grift. Enjoy the natural freedom of information while you still can.
I used to only pirate things that I owned in different formats, (like owning a DVD, but wanting to watch it on my iPad), or planned on buying in the near future. But nowadays, it feels more like stealing from billionaires is a moral imperative.
do whatever you like nobody cares (no offense)
No need to make everything complicated
You should only feel bad about pirating art made by small independent artists, and even then only if you don’t have the disposable income to easily afford it.
Piracy is an actually victimless crime, you aren’t depriving anyone of anything except your hypothetical dollars. And that’s only a loss if you were going to spend them in the first place. Then add the fact that selling digital goods at all is basically a massive scam…
Also, in many cases it’s actually better for the artist to donate directly to them than to buy their products from a store that’s probably taking a cut.
You’ve conflated laws and ethics. Does piracy violate some laws in some jurisdictions? Unquestionably. Is every single law ethical? Unlikely.
Technically you rented that what you think you bought and when the licence expires the game,movie, etc. will be deleted from your library, best recent example is The Crew by Ubisoft and there was that whole debacle with Sony and their Discovery Channel licence where people lost a ton of documentaries, was later restored… mostly, but it showed how fragile this digital ecosystem is and why people turn to piracy eventually since you basically don’t own anything you shouldn’t feel guilty about it.
That’s a very ambiguous and loaded question.
Bold move, asking a “should I pirate?” question in a community called Piracy. Surely you’ll only receive unbiased answers here.
Bias is inevitable.
It makes no sense to work to eliminate it.
It’s like trying to breed a new species of humans that are void of preferences. An impossible task. If such a breeding process somehow succeded, the resulting product would not be a human anyway.
If anyone claims to be unbiased themselves, or claims freedom from bias for someone else, even just implying that someone somewhere is unbiased, I immediately know bullshit is afoot. Such claims are not always knowingly malicious, but are always detrimental to my interests should I start foolishly believing them.
When it comes to music I try to buy the stuff I like (mostly flacs) on bandcamp Fridays (certain days of the year where bandcamp charges 0% fees from the creators).
If it’s indie/small/mid-sized creator I’d like to see more of. They also sell vinyl and other merch which is rly cool
Freely pirate everything without guilt. If you use torrent then seed how much you can. It will help your fellow human beings.
BUT if/when you have money to spare invest them into creators/art that bring you something. It seems antithetical because they taught us real art should be free from capitalism’s shackles yadda yadda, but art and artists needs money to flourish. Find indie artists and wacky projects and fund them.
pirate whatever you want, but just know that you’re not voting with your dollar if you don’t put your dollars anywhere.
it’s really hard to make a living with a passion project these days.
you could buy music. and ethical/indie shit. books. things that you actually care about existing. or not, i guess. whatever
Everything.
Like, i pay screenwriters by bringing them lunch while they collect cans around town and actors by tipping on lunch, but you, by paying at a movie theatre, generally do not.
Depends which d&d alignment you’re shooting for but I think empathy is necessary for ethics and moral reasoning. Reciprocity is a good moderator to prevent being a door mat, treat people how they treat you.
