Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Piracy is morally justified when 1 is a more pressing matter than 2. As such, it's justified in situations like this:

If, in the absence of piracy, the pirate would still not pay for the goods - because #2 is set up to zero (the author of the work is not rewarded anyway).
If it's impossible to obtain the goods without piracy. For example, abandonware.
If the author of the work would get breadcrumbs of the money used to access legally the goods, and the pirate compensates the author directly (e.g. donation).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Nuance seems rare in these posts sometimes, I appreciate your post!