Hi guys, first of all, I fully support Piracy. But Im writing a piece on my blog about what I might considere as “Ethical Piracy” and I would like to hear your concepts of it.
Basically my line is if I have the capacity of paying for something and is more convinient that pirating, ill pay. It happens to me a lot when I wanna watch a movie with my boyfriend. I like original audio, but he likes dub, so instead of scrapping through the web looking for a dub, I just select the language on the streaming platform. That is convinient to me.
In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something? And where is 100 justified and everybody should sail the seas instead?
I would like to hear you.
For me the primary question is “Am I willing and able to buy this firsthand”.
The latter is the most obvious. For instance, Nintendo won’t sell me a game for the ds no matter how willing I am to buy. Therefore, I have no issues with pirating said game since they refuse to distribute it.
The former is more nuanced. Sometimes it’s a matter of distain for the company and their business practices, such as Adobe. Sometimes it’s a matter of the thing being incredibly overpriced. Sometimes it’s just something that contributes so little value to me the only reason I’d interact with it is if it’s free. Sometimes it’s lack of knowledge about what I’m getting, and I want to try it first.
Also when it comes to Anime specifically, I try to support creators in other ways because my objections to the licensing companies in the US has nothing to do with the content itself.
If I may add, there’s also things like “I have purchased this same album 15 times in my life, I just want to listen to my music”.
For me personally, that falls under willingness to purchase. I only want to buy the same thing so many times.
I wanted to write this but my brain no do words right now