Do you guys see a difference morally? Why or why not?

Educational - Science, Non-fiction books, Online courses, etc.

Entertainment - Games, Movies + TV, Fiction books, etc.

  • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    Entertainment companies are morally bankrupt because of how much they take from the people actually doing work to give to CEOs. I don’t care if people get that content for free since nearly none of the revenue will go towards the creators. But they are at least somewhat reimbursing the labor that goes into the content.

    The academic journals do not do any work whatsoever and charge absolutely absurd prices for access. They get free peer review from the community, they certainly don’t write any of the content. It is a moral imperative to prevent them from profiting off of other people’s work. Hope they lose all their ill-gotten gains.

  • pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    92·
    10 months ago

    Immoral piracy is the killing of the crew during the hijacking of a ship. There is no moral dilemma in downloading anything.

  • aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    If i paid for every required college textbook I would be broke. I’m already broke now, but that’s a different story.

  • donkeystomple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I believe that information and knowledge should be free anyways (at least in a perfect world), because that leads to the betterment of society. Also if you are able to use the knowledge you learn from the things you pirate I think you’ll be able to come back and support those things that got you to where you are.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Anyone should be able to download anything for free, in an ideal world. We don’t live in that world, so I download what I need/want, and pay the creators if I can afford it, in order of how high quality the content was.

    That said, I don’t pirate applications, simply because I don’t trust running the code from a random source on my computer. There are FOSS alternatives for all productivity software (except for DAWs, and REAPER has a free ‘trial’), games I generally buy on sale, except for Geometry Dash for Android, which I downloaded the apk for since 1) it’s Android, which is apparently more secure than Linux, and 2) It seemed to have removed from the Google Play Store, or Aurora, or something, and I’d already bought the Steam and iOS versions of the game.