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Ya know what stops piracy? A better service than what piracy provides.
They had it. They decided three yachts aren’t enough.
“you wouldn’t download a car”
Fuck you yes I would. Invents 3d printing
It’s like the anti piracy messages are just advertising for piracy
The “you wouldn’t download a car” joke is one thing. What I don’t understand is how people genuinely use a satirical joke as a supporting argument for piracy, or a critique of anti-piracy.
The advertising never said downloading a car. It was stealing a car, which is very clearly a crime.
You are free to claim auto theft is not comparable to digital piracy. You are free to suggest that somehow in the future you’d be able to home manufacturer a vehicle (although a bit far fetched IMO). But criticizing an ad campaign for something they’ve never said is just silly.
If I stole someone’s car, and an exact copy of the car was left there for them, I’d probably be okay with stealing a car. Copying a file isn’t the same as stealing a physical album. That’s the criticism of that ad campaign, they aren’t equal comparisons. Besides, if buying isn’t owning, then copying isn’t stealing.
Like I said, you’re welcome to talk about it being an invalid comparison, but the advert did not state you wouldn’t download a car.
We’re aware of that. People didn’t steal albums either.
Well, maybe you didn’t. My CD case that someone stole out of my parent’s convertible would like to disagree.
Funny enough, most of those discs were burned with content of dubious legality.
Who would have thought people don’t like being threatened?
I imagine for a lot of people an anti piracy campaign simply serves to alert them that piracy is possible and apparently so common and easy that everybody else must be doing it. They probably walk away curious about learning a new hobby more than fearing the consequences.
I like to call it the D.A.R.E. Effect.
As a man, I support this message.
Now I’m gonna piracy even harder
The best part is that pirates don’t need to sit through the bullshit anti piracy messages
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