It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.

  • @aelwero
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    21 year ago

    This is the basic premise for a lot more people than will claim it or understand it…

    Let’s take a bin full of potatoes. Everyone’s gonna pick the best potato. They’ll dig around, examine, inspect, and pick the good ones. The shitty scruffy looking ones get left sitting there, and don’t nobody who runs a shop wanna just wait until all the potatoes get chosen. They bring out new ones constantly to keep the bin full and have options available so people can pick the best ones.

    Maybe once in a great while someone’s buying potatoes for their pigs, and they look for crappy ones. Maybe once in a great while someone needs 200 potatoes and they don’t wanna sit there being Picky Ricky for four fucking hours. Maybe once in a great while those crappy potatoes actually get chosen… but how often? Not very…

    Netflix is that bin of potatoes. Is it wrong to pirate movies that are available on Netflix instead of paying Netflix? Well, it kinda depends on the fucking potato, don’t it? You’ll pay the $30/mo or whatever it is for a game of thrones, because you’re getting what you pay for, and pirating that is definitely depriving Netflix of some value in its investment, but if you pirate billy bobs country bunker hour special from 1993, you’re not taking jack shit from Netflix, it’s an old wrinkly ass potato that’s been sitting in the bin for a long ass time while people spent their money on better potatoes, fun it’ll never make a goddamn penny for netflix. It’s only value is adding quantity to the bin.

    When it gets old enough that they’ll throw it away, the deprivation of value has been reduced to being trivial. Your point is valid imho