No, it’s not like stealing a physical item from a store.

“stealing” a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you’re stealing from a store is infinitely copyable. Like the replicator from star trek…or that one episode of Sabrina the teenage witch with that box that can make a perfect copy of everything you put inside of it.

Of course I personally would never pirate anything, no matter how much streaming services increase their prices or how much they crack down on VPN usage to get around geo-restrictions, PIRACY IS BAD AND ONLY BAD PEOPLE DO IT.

I’ve never pirated anything in my whole life!

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    Pirates constantly trying to “morally” justify their action is by far the worst part of all pirate forums.

    Its embarrassing how many pirates need the validation of strangers on the internet.

    Isn’t there a philosophy forum that these people could spam instead?

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      It’s good because otherwise we would have only shady characters and kids and that would be even more annoying to read. We have this illusion of doing something right, part of some greater philosophical stance and thanks to it you can read the comments without digging through slurs. The piracy forums are usually very hard on the eyes.

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      Pirates commenters constantly trying to “morally” justify their action opinion is by far the worst part of all pirate forums.

      Its embarrassing how many pirates commenters need the validation of strangers on the internet.

      Isn’t there a philosophy forum that these people could spam instead?

      Ftfy