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I think piracy is copyright infringement. But like who cares if some big corpos get infringed upon by some dudes.
There is a third party that cares: those of us who pay subscriptions that finance the content that pirates steal. Due in part to rising rates of piracy, our subscription fees go up and/or production budgets go down. In turn, pirates should care, too, because then there's less in quantity and quality to steal.
Piracy isn't costing these companies any money if people never intended on giving them money in the first place. This argument almost implies that these companies have an inherent right to our money whether we want to spend it with them or not.
There will be a portion of pirates that never intended to spend money, but surely there will also be at least some pirates who deliberately stopped paying a subscription in favor of consuming content for free.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that corporations have some unalienable right to take our money; what I'm saying is that with the recent increase in digital piracy, it's not unthinkable that it has had some, however small, financial impact on their bottom line.
I feel this is a very nuanced take and genuinely don't understand how this community has taken offense to it.