You block ads because of privacy.
I block ads to cause the greatest amount of financial damage, purely out of spite.
We are not the same.
I also block ads because I want a clean page, plus the economical damage.
Yeah that’s my whole thing with ads, I understand monetization is necessary but it’s gotten so far out of fucking hand
I agree. Small, non-intrusive banner ads with an easy close button are fine. They get the message across without getting in anyone’s way.
The problem is the ads that stop you from doing anything for the best part of a minute. I don’t see how anyone has ever been convinced to buy whatever product is being advertised by these, but somehow, they’re the ones that are everywhere.
Steal. To take another person’s property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
Take. To remove someone or something from a particular place.
I’m not taking anything, I’m merely creating a copy of it. I would 100% download a car if that meant cloning someone’s car for free and without damaging the original one.
This doesn’t get said enough. Piracy is only damaging if I would have paid to get the thing in the first place. If I’m pirating something that I would have avoided entirely had I needed to pay, literally no one is taking any losses.
I don’t understand your logic. You deem piracy to be “not theft” if it’s so low quality that you would waste your time watching it for free.
If you wrote a book, and I photocopied it from the library and redistributed copies to all my friends, you can’t be mad because nothing was taken from you.
I don’t understand the downvotes. I’m justified in making copies and distributing those copies to my friends without paying the creator. Nothing was taken.
I don’t know why some people sugar coat it.
I’d pirate anyway because I don’t wanna spend money, and so would a lot of people who instead choose to hide behind excuses.
I have seen these big long winded speeches about how immoral it is to sell copyrighted material and how some dumb shit like spiderman should fall under the ‘free sharing of ideas to better humanity’ and blah blah blah.
Bro. We are thieves. We are stealing because its easy and the products cost too much.
It also depends on who’s behind the product. Good indie game with one or a few developers - never. Adobe - I consider it a moral obligation.
Bad news: piracy isn’t theft if buying isn’t owning
In what world is getting something for free that the original owners are charging money for not theft?
You engaged in a TOS with a service provider. The terms of your ownership were not negotiated and yet you tacitly agreed to the contract.
The one we live in, where software is being sold to consumers with terms of service that say customers don’t own the software they bought.
Right. You license it. Owning something isn’t the be all end all of commerce. Just admit you like getting free stuff.
Do you complain about the Theme Park getting to keep all of its rides when you leave at the end of the day? You paid money to be there, surely you should get to take part of the park home with you.
I used to NOT advocate for piracy. I still pirated shit because I did not want to pay but I never suggested that it was the right thing to do. But the way that these corporations try to fuck their customers more and more I feel like paying for something is basically tipping a billionaire. Their pockets are bottomless and they will figure out a hundred different ways to make sure they don’t pay taxes on those billions while the rest of us have to pay a third of our hard earned cash in taxes. Piracy is not only OK, I think it is warranted at this point.
You’re not entitled to media. Just own the fact that you like stealing media.
And billionaires are not entitled to fucking tax breaks every year. I’ll start paying when they start paying their fair share.
Also I literally said that in my comment. But you were too busy sucking off a billionaire.
