• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Let this be a reminder to never turn away from piracy. It needs to constantly be in the background and if any company gets like they always do, then it comes back out. But if we let the knowledge fade away then it’s impossible to rebuild it.

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      4 days ago

      Piracy preserves media.

      Piracy preserves art.

      Piracy makes sure, that future generations still have access to the creations of humanity.

      Data hoarding is a service to the public.

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        4 days ago

        I initially perceived piracy similarly to how or perceive reading about archaeology and such, so the fact that someone is sincere in hating p2p copying and calling it immoral just felt preposterous.

        Yet now it seems plenty of normies will agree. Then go listen to something they didn’t pay for on YouTube or Facebook or whatever, because “everybody uses that”. What “everybody uses” is fine, see. What they condemn me the pirate for is using ed2k, torrents and such other technologies. Even when I’m literally downloading public domain stuff or abandonware.

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        4 days ago

        It doesn’t take much for media though to parade out the “lil guy and change the opinion of people about how your basically attacking small indie creators”