Are you saying I wouldn’t steal a car, or a handbag, or a television, or a dvd? So piracy is a crime?
Are you really making that argument in 2025? You must be very young.
Bittorrent didn’t become popular because no one wanted to pay for things. In fact people stopped when Netflix was good. I stopped, all my friends stopped. It was no longer a mainstream thing. We even put up with a few price hikes. Then 1 service became whatever and people started torrenting and streaming sites started popping up.
Everyone was willing to pay for convenience. No ones wants to pay even more for in convenience.
You’ll note music piracy is not really a thing anymore. Thanks Spotify.
I'm not very young, but that meme doesn't hold up. I agree piracy isn't the same as theft, but it's extremely close still. If an author works on a book for 10 years and then the publisher copies it and sells it without paying them, is that okay because copying isn't technically theft? Murder isn't theft either, but it's still bad.
I agree that streaming services quieted piracy, but that doesn't somehow make piracy okay.
> I agree piracy isn't the same as theft, but it's extremely close still.
No, not really. Most of the time nothing is lost.
> If an author works on a book for 10 years and then the publisher copies it and sells it without paying them, is that okay because copying isn't technically theft?
If people genuinely like the book, people will support the author. If the author isn't being supported, that's an issue with their relationship with their publisher.
For most of history, the ideal of stealing content would have been rightfully viewed as ridiculous.
"piracy" is the natural state of things, and eventually it will become the norm again just as it has been for most of history.
Are you really making that argument in 2025? You must be very young.
Bittorrent didn’t become popular because no one wanted to pay for things. In fact people stopped when Netflix was good. I stopped, all my friends stopped. It was no longer a mainstream thing. We even put up with a few price hikes. Then 1 service became whatever and people started torrenting and streaming sites started popping up.
Everyone was willing to pay for convenience. No ones wants to pay even more for in convenience.
You’ll note music piracy is not really a thing anymore. Thanks Spotify.