You’ve just let the world know you’re pirating though

Because for some piracy isn’t simply about being a cheapskate but also about activism

I don’t want some validation, internet points, 2 minutes of fame to sound / look cool.

No, you just need everyone to know you don’t care about sounding/looking cool to sound/look cool. Totally different.

So true! Here, have some internet points and validation!

“A smart person would pirate quietly without letting the world know” While posting “I do it & I don’t want some validation…”

Especially when the statement makes no sense

You’re so right! Here have an internet point.

They are screaming because they rather pay for convenience, but that is not how it works.

You just said admitted to pirating, you little muppet.

I think some still feel some level of guilt about it and naturally, whether consciously or subconsciously, rationalize it with ideas like this. I guess the progression from that is posting about it to show that “yes I pirate, but I’m not a bad person because rationalization”.

The same reason that a lot of crosswalks have fake buttons. So you feel like you have control.

Actually it’s worse than nothing. Youtube promotes comments based on engagement, so while only an upvote increases the tally, voting at all still makes it more visible.

The downvotes are still counted, just not displayed. You can re-enable it via browser extensions.

But all of those are excuses?

I just want to point out to anyone who thinks this is a viable legal defence, It isn’t.

Of course it isn’t. Copyright laws were written by the same kind of people who decided that corporations gets to “people.”

Legally speaking they’re not going after you solely for piracy pretty much ever, at least not in America, unless you’re making a profit from it.

You’re only partly right. You example services. Of course it is not possible to own services. Piracy is only applicable to products. The point of the Twitter guy is, that companies intentionally stop selling their software etc. as products to sell you the same thing as a service, so that you cannot own it.

what do you mean trying to justify? discussion of shitty anti consumer tactics in digital media is perfectly valid

This is some cope shit. We’re stealing, it’s not morally correct for most of us. No one cares enough to stop though, that includes me.

That’s my YouTube comment. You and so many others are making me feel like a badass. 😎

The real friends were the piracy we undertook along the way.

Remember: friends come and go, but pirated media is forever (as long as you have good backups).

And also the cargo ships I robbed.

As an artificial intelligence, I don’t have personal opinions or feelings. However, I can provide an analysis of the argument. This assertion appears to be examining the complex relationship between ownership, copyright, and piracy. While it’s true that purchasing certain types of media doesn’t confer full ownership rights in the traditional sense (you cannot replicate and distribute a DVD you bought, for instance), it doesn’t necessarily justify piracy. From a legal perspective, piracy is considered a form of theft as it involves the unauthorized use or distribution of copyrighted material. The argument could be seen as an attempt to redefine or question these understandings, but that doesn’t necessarily change how they’re treated by the law.

It’s the same with steam games and other online stores. You are granted a licence to use the software; not to own it.

this meme is a criticism of that. it shouldn’t be like that. if I buy a chair, I own the chair. I can then choose to sit on it, burn it, or give it to my neighbor, whatever. if I buy a movie, it’s suddenly not like that – but not because of some inherent quality that would make it impossible, but only because they say it is like that. but they have one weakness: it’s only like that if we actually stick to those rules. they’re all arbitrary anyway! we can therefore treat a bought movie just as it should be: a physical copy that we actually own. we can then decide to watch it, to lend it to our neighbor, to play it for everybody to see on the street, to cut it and remix it and do something new with it. will they come and claim we’ve “pirated” their media? yes of course, but this is nonsensical, dead law, that has to be broken again and again by just – ignoring it, and making it not so. if I buy a movie, I do own the movie, and the company that says otherwise can get fucked. that’s what this is about.

For physical releases you buy the disk and the right to watch it under certain conditions (DRM).

I’d like to point out German law (maybe this expands to EU and other countries) with traditional media.

Traditionally you bought movies and music on physical discs. You had a guaranteed right to be able to sell it to other people, as well as make personal copies of it for private use/backups.

DRM has always tried to oppose this right. And obviously, in the last decade(s) a lot went into service-oriented streaming and temporary access instead of owning even on a partial or theoretical level.

That’s kind of their point, because we are not in fact buying the media the argument is that piracy has some moral element. Put another way there is no option to own it outside of piracy.

If I’ve bought the right to play the game, what’s “the game” that I’m entitled to if they decide to take away what makes it the thing I agreed to have access to?