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[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest.

Why?

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

which I explained in the part of my comment you left out.

Pardon me. Here is the part you left out:

It cheapens the endeavor

You'll forgive me if I can't seem to scrape enough detail about your argument out of that.

Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving. The motivations of pirates has nothing at all to do with it. Archiving springs from piracy, it is a consequence of piracy. And the corporations you are de-facto acting as defense counsel for here have proven over and over again it means less than nothing to them.

But I'm making assumptions about your argument, because apparently you think "cheapens the endeavor" is a real mic drop.