At least, some of the recent controversies.

  • NightOwl@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    That’s a whole lot of words for what in the end is not piracy with no laws being broken. There’s a difference between a moral argument and law breaking.

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      1 year ago

      Lots of piracy is also not breaking the law. Copyright violations are illegal, but that involves making copies, which you don’t do when you stream a movie from a pirate site. It’s the site provider that is breaking the law, not the viewer at the other end.

      In the end it doesn’t matter if you call it freeloading, piracy or whatever. You can twist the definitions of those words any way you want. What matters is that the content provider isn’t getting paid.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not what’s being discussed. It’s whether laws are being broken. That’s why the discussion is about piracy not payment.