Arguments for piracy often don't make sense to me. amirite?

My personal views on it is that if the company doesn't sell the product anymore or it's impossibly expensive or hard to find it's probably justified. Making rips/backups of your own media is also A-OK in my books. The rest (while I don't have an issue with it in many cases) exists in a grey and morally ambiguous area which can range from "perfectly fine" to "you probably shouldn't do that"

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I completely agree with you!

by Positive-Row-1856 2 days ago

When you buy axe, axe stays with you forever. And you can't monopolize axes

by Anonymous 2 days ago

As I said, the axe dude is renting out axes.

by Positive-Row-1856 2 days ago

Just buy axe from someone who sells axes Publishers monopolize on their "axe" if we go with this analogy

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Publishers have monopoly and copyright on a particular type of axe that they've developed. There still exist other axe sellers. Just buy axe from someone who sells axes That's exactly what I mean to say!!! If Nintendo has the rights to Mario Kart, go buy a game from an indie store that gives you complete ownership of the game. You are essentially agreeing that you won't pirate Mario Kart?

by Positive-Row-1856 2 days ago

I would rent the axe and reverse engineer it to sell copies of it

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Youre comparing physical to digital and rentals to ownership. If i buy the axe then i own the axe. The axe guy cant come in a week later and decide that i have to return the axe and start renting from him, and he cant ban me from using his axes that i already purchased beforehand.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

What I mean is this dude is selling you an agreement to use the axe that he can then revoke at any time, and then marketing that as 'buying' the axe. Let's assume he can somehow enforce that. Im not saying those aren't despicable terms the axe dude is enforcing, but if you use an axe without paying, you are still (in my opinion) stealing.

by Positive-Row-1856 2 days ago

You must work for EA or something if youre shilling this hard for companies to be able to just take away what you purchased because theres a clause saying they can if they want

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I don't get why y'all aren't making the distinction that I can think something can be justifiable and ethically wrong at the same time. I DONT think companies should be able to take away what you bought. I think stealing from these companies IS justifiable. I just want to equate that piracy IS stealing.

by Positive-Row-1856 2 days ago

The big rally cry of the high seas This isn't the big rally cry. Duh. Do you know nothing??

by Anonymous 2 days ago

The only people that support piracy are terminally online losers that are trying to morally justify their stealing. Piracy is obviously immoral. You can also do immoral things. I don't know a single person who hasn't pirated something in their life. The difference is that most sane people know that it's bad and we did it anyways. You don't have to pretend your every action in life is justified or moral.

by wardvalentina 2 days ago

Those arguments are only made by a very small number of people online. I would argue that supporting piracy is the truly unpopular opinion.

by Livid-Band1280 2 days ago