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There is nothing to justify.

I pirate because I want to see the world burn, among other things.

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I do it because it’s easy and it’s free but if it was difficult i’d probably still do it.

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If needed, I’d pay for debrid/vpn much more than I’d pay for some ‘legit’ streaming service, just out of spite.

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It’s always moral to steal from billionaires

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I agree, but software piracy isn’t stealing from anyone.

Stealing definitively requires depriving someone of their own stuff. Piracy is more akin to a massive crowdsourced library. We’re all just helping to share the burden of hosting costs.

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Most Billionaires don’t write much code.

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Is there a need for justification?

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Corpos are not people, they deserve nothing, they are entitled to nothing.

I don’t care what the government has to say on this issue. Useless fucking whores.

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We reject the premise of the question: the onus sits with copyright holders to justify copyright protection.

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Better question: Who decides what software “piracy” even is?

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Sid Meier, obviously.

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I want the stuff, the stuff is there. I take it. The stuff is still there, nothing was lost, nothing was stolen.

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You’re not stealing stuff, you’re stealing revenue. The missing revenue is what they care about. But they have plenty of that already, so they can get bent

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Stealing revenue it’s hypothetical, because it supposes that you were going to pay for the product if it wasn’t available pirated. And that is far from being certain.

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That is very true, but that doesn’t stop them from going after piracy to protect the revenue

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Not really, it’s just free publicity.

Unless their product is shit, of course, and no one would pay for it after trying or recommend it to others… in which case, fuck them, they deserve it for attempting to sell shit.

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Me at the grocery store

Except the second half

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Same. And for some reason I can’t seem to lose weight.

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Oh I was joking about theft lol

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