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minus-squareColonel SanderslinkEnglish97•edit-28 months agoAnd this is why things like pirating are not only acceptable but necessary. When companies lock services behind paywalls for products we should legally own, we are left with no recourse but to obtain the services we are owed illegally.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink26•8 months agoAgreed. Piracy, aka the sharing of information freely (see also: libraries), is a fundamentally ethically correct course of action. Always. Withholding knowledge for personal profit on the other hand is obviously not.
And this is why things like pirating are not only acceptable but necessary. When companies lock services behind paywalls for products we should legally own, we are left with no recourse but to obtain the services we are owed illegally.
Agreed. Piracy, aka the sharing of information freely (see also: libraries), is a fundamentally ethically correct course of action. Always.
Withholding knowledge for personal profit on the other hand is obviously not.