Piracy is the same thing as theft. It is exactly as bad as theft

cooking your own food instead of buying a burger from mcd's is theft, since it reduces ronald's income

i-if i pirate will you call me a thief?
t-that's kinda cool, th-thanks!

Stop bumping and responding to weak shitposts

Breathing is theft, I was gonna corrupt the government and sell you air under a 2 month license to use it once

In a perfect world, corporate cocksucking shills would not exist. But this is not a perfect world...

uh, who cares? this is like a boomer copyright manager mindset. The future is now, old man.

Competition is piracy.

Estimated sales totals ard not gaurunteed income. Piracy doesn't steal income, it just makes estimations into overestimations.

If I wasn't pirating, I will use the closest free alternative. I would never pay for content or software no matter the case. Therefore you are losing no income if I pirate your stuff.

The ones who pirate are kids, NEETs and poorfags. They'd never be able to afford buying anything so it's no loss of income.

this is now a Bowsette thread

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Nope, copyright had been hijacked by corporate interests. Until they adjust copyright to a reasonable duration the population should feel free to ignore it wherever they can.

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The Fed printed over 1.93 TRILLION of the US $100 bill in 2015 alone, they can loan out 90X that much.
Fake Money STEALS everything, now THAT'S REAL PIRACY!

then why haven't the cops sent me to jail?

intellectual property is state enforced thought police

This. OP is a retard.

are Super Crowns technology? when can i get and wear one in real life?

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>people replying to this obvious bait without saging, or even replying at all
What is this, reddit? /v/? Jesus this board has too many newfags

can't steal income if they don't sell access to it in the first place

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No.

Oh boy this thread again.

theft is ok

its called estrogen pills

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I don't give a fuck, here's your (You).

That's right. Piracy is bad and you should feel bad. All those people work so hard, you know.

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How is it stealing income if I was never going to pay for it to begin with?
What if I've already paid for it and want an extra copy?
HM?
Really makes you think...

Only that the severity of the crime depends on how good your memory is.
Autist with photographic memory? Sorry kid, you're going away for a long time.

>be me
>pirate
>am now a millionaire
>tfw

Transferring binary digits from one client to another is theft?
>LUL, good luck with your crusade user.

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>piracy steals income
This right in, trading is theft.

AARRRGGGHH
I be having a problem with you calling these scallywags "pirates"!

Yes, super crowns are technology.

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>download the same song one million times
>now a millionaire
>later virgins

Can someone explain to me why piracy is morally right?
Im not saying its theft, just that I think its not moral

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This image assumes I would have bought a copy if I couldn't pirate one. This is not the case, especially when it can only be bought for obscenely much money. If I wouldn't use it otherwise, I'm not removing income by using it without paying.

And actually if I'm a student and I'm pirating a program in the field I plan to go into, it might be generating more income down the road, when I ask my future boss for that program because it's what I know.

If you buy a song, only around 4% of your money actually goes to the artist. The other 96% goes to other people--most prominently the publisher (60%), the retailer (20%), and the manager (12%). Pirating a song and donating the cost of the song directly to the artist is literally 25 times better than buying the song legally, if you care only about the artist. Artists make a lot more money from live concerts than from recordings.
Source: techdirt.com/articles/20180819/00051140461/only-12-music-revenue-goes-to-actual-artists.shtml

(Note: The 12% number cited by the article includes ALL sources of "music revenues"--not just buying songs, but also subscription services, concerts, licensing for advertisements, etc. The percentages that I gave above are calculated from the "Total purchase" numbers in the "Figure 72" and "Figure 73" images.)

Yes

>buying anything from major labels
>not using Bandcamp

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If piracy wasn't possible, that income would continue not existing because pirates wouldn't buy the product anyway

Not buying a product is the same thing as pirating it.

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>Pirating something you wouldn't have bought anyway is theft
When companies talk about theft and piracy they're talking about people who would've spent money

well i wouldnt spend money on anything if i could pirate it instead
if i couldn't idk whether id spend money on anything i've never run into that situation :3

Yeah record companies really need that $20 per album or $1 per 192 kbps .mp3.

Our copyright law would be a lot less fucked if incel bootlickers would stop electing corporate puppets

But user! You seem to be _retarded_ !!!

Not buying something doesn't steal income.

Otherwise you robbed McDonalds today but not buying a quarter pounder!

I suggest you try to get a refund on your education user :3 ~

piracy is the same thing as sharing. It's exactly as bad as sharing

Counterfeiting money is stealing from everyone in the form of devaluing currency.
Pirating content literally just allows you to watch it. It doesn't affect scarcity.

>When companies talk about theft and piracy they're talking about people who would've spent money
Of course not. They just assume people would've bought it.

>not paying a sum of money equals taking away that sum of money from someone
????????

If you consider buying a game, but then choose not to, is that also theft of profit?

I know and agree, I just do it anyway.

No, the equivalent of that would be programming your own game. Piracy is getting a McD's burger without paying for a McD's burger.

More accurately piracy steals pay. Reducing the barrier to engaging with the products. Generally that's the crux of the loss argument.

Serving advertisements is also theft.

lolicon is child abuse.

What about software piracy? Why is it morally acceptable to pirate MS products for example? We all know de dev team gets super rewarded thanks to the stupid high price of Win10

There was some list of eight types of pirates that broke things down incredibly well and I seem to have lost it entirely. Something with companies targeting the wrong type of piracy. Wish I could find it. If anyone happens to have it, please share it.

it's unethical to use proprietary software in the first place as it not only harms your liberty but the liberty of those around you.

I want to make income by forcefully requiring people to go through me as a middle man whenever they buy vacuum cleaner bags. By using a bag-free vacuum cleaner, you are stealing income from me.

Is that a shitty analogy? Yes, but low-effort threads get low-effort retorts.

lol I like it.

You can't steal a digital copy, because it's just bytes. Bytes can dissapear and reappear, they are different from matter.

You can't steal bytes...

Not accurate either. Better: You make your living manufacturing vacuums, I want one of your vacuums, so I magically copy one for free.

OP's bad analogy is the same thing as murder because it intentionally kills lifetime that I could've spend on other things.
So put him on deathrow

Friendly reminder that the piracy/delegalization movement doesn't have any problem with companies putting up paywalls for their content, the only problem is government intervention and them punishing victimless crimes for the sake of benefiting said companies.

Nothing inherently wrong with stuff like youtubers locking their content behind donations, companies making their games online-only and cinemas not allowing people to film inside their theaters. It's the state we have a problem with.

(￣人￣) Hello. I am "Mr. Likes To Sage Threads". I do believe this thread is in need of Sage, so I would like to sage it. That is why my name is "Mr. Likes To Sage Threads".

Anyone need the new infinity war? Just bootlegged 1000 copies

> is the same thing
Makes a statement
> exactly as bad as theft
Changes it right in the next sentence
I wouldn't buy a software if I were to pay for it. At least I may recommend it to somebody else if I continue to use it.

>Our copyright law would be a lot less fucked if incel bootlickers would stop electing corporate puppets
All your choices were corporate puppets.

>If there is a research funded entirely or partially by tax money it is often unavailable to the public because research journals are given the rights to publish the results. So the company stole from you already by denying you access to information you paid for.
>Many companies claim buying something legally in a region that is not your own is piracy because it cuts out the middleman, a middleman who only exists because regional licensing is a business model still used despite fundamentally being incompatible with a globalized world.
>Many companies claim selling your property, or buying used property is piracy because they can't profit of the sale of the product. Despite them making money from the original sale already.
>It is considered piracy to download media, if the creator of that product will never make it available to you to purchase legally.
>It is piracy to make a generic version of a medication to save someone's life if the brand name version of the product is not available.
Pick one. The copyright system is fundamentally morally bankrupt.

Piracy is not stealing though faggot, it's the opposite actually, copying and redistributing for free.
Pirates used to steal the only copy and sell it for money.
Kys and keep sucking that jew dick

>5 sided star

kek

>Theft is illegal
>"Piracy" is legal
>Therefore piracy != theft
Mhhh no, try again sweetie.

>muh artists
copyright is censorship desu also most of this "artists" are multi millionaires

Ok buddy. You can go away now.

Copyright and IPs are leading us to a new obscurantism

Its taking the food off the programmers table.

Piracy is too strong word for illegal movie download. Piracy means boarding a ship, killing and raping.

Cumming outside is theft.

>Piracy steals income and is therefore theft.
I guess things such as negative reviews are also theft then, and refunds, and bad service.

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Well played.

Don't forget
>it is considered piracy to play a movie in front of several people since according to law you bought a license for ONE person to watch it

You know, if you create something of worth chances are people will support you anyway. I donate $40/month to people on Patreon without getting anything back because I genuinely like them, but I would never feel the need to support the companies behind Hollywood blockbuster movies. Maybe if they made a downloading service where the majority of the profit goes to the creators without any middlemen, but like hell I want to support big licensing corporations who treats us normal consumers like garbage.

That's one of the best aspects of capitalism over socialism, a socialist can use the state to force you to hand over your resources at gunpoint but with capitalism you never have to make any financial decisions that aren't beneficial to you.

Kinda silly yeah, but companies actually want to do refunds. Not because they want the refunds themselves, but because they know they'll sell more than enough to make up for it if they make their products more attractive by including a refund policy. Enabling reviews is the same too, so consumers can feel more safe in purchasing from them thus making up for some bad reviews.

What they ideally want is the best of two worlds though, when they give of the shine of being open with reviews while trying to remove all the bad ones without most people noticing. Kind of like how Creative Assembly got massive dislikes the last month on their Total War titles (due to calling their fans nazis and manchildren online) and then got Steam to ''bug out'' a lot of the recent negative reviews. That's the kinda shit we as consumers have to push back against.

I'm going to install Windows 10 Enterprise on my brand new NVME SSD and will fill it with various expensive programs and video games, I might use software only once, but still gonna install regardless if I need it or not.

Guess what? I payed only for SSD.
What you gonna do about it? If you make a proprietary software, there will always be someone like me using your program without paying you a cent.
How do you feel about it? I'm literally cucking proprietary software devs.

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>not just buying one game a year and being happy with it

The only game I bought this year was Overwatch (and TW3 but I got it for $10 at a pawn shop).
I haven't watched a film since 2012 (except Zodiac which I watched on YouTube).

Come play, my lord.

>implying theft is bad

shingeling, corporate cuck

>Piracy is the same thing as theft. It is exactly as bad as theft.
Nice meme.
vimeo.com/148955816
torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-builds-the-ultimate-piracy-machine-151219/

Yeah that's true actually. Anybody that disagrees is retarded brainlet.