>Piracy is not a victimless crime

but piracy has a victim

smoking weed has none

Don't ever smoke weed with your friends and watch streamed content!

pretty obvious to see piracy has a victim: the content creators

>>57973616
>my god. we'll have to start paying actors in 7 figure salaries for <4 months work
what is this France?!

There's too many grey areas

Like, if I own a movie on dvd or blu-ray and then "pirate" it just so I can have the file on my computer and not have to worry about annoying discs, did I really steal it? I bought the fucking movie already. Same thing for shit that I've watched on cable that I pay every month for which in turn pays the salaries of the actors on cable, is that stealing? I'm already paying for the programming.

Also, if I download a movie, watch it, and then delete it, is that stealing? How is that different from checking a movie out at a library which I can do for free? Or the same idea but with a textbook? Im not keeping it, just using it for a while.

When we were younger (or maybe when I was younger, Im fucking old now) and would record songs we heard on the radio onto cassette tapes, was that piracy or stealing? I dont remember every hearing anything bad about that. When I was younger I heard BTO play at a concert with about 10000 other people from a parking lot right by the stadium. We didn't pay for tickets, but could hear it clear as day and had an awesome time doing it, were we stealing?

>>57973512
Why do people still create content when pirating exists?

>>57973733
Making backups while not distributing is legally protected.

Copyright infringement is not a crime. It is a civil violation.

This fucking thread again.

>implying someone deserves to get paid because they made something
>if someone buys it from you, you deserved that money
>if someone doesn't, you never lost money; you simple never earned it

It can't be any fucking simpler.

>>57973512
>Advocating on behalf of megacorp content distributors
Good goy

>>57973817
t. economist

>>57973901
t.creatorcuck who never broke even

>>57973512
Your birth had three victims.

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piracy hasnt hurt shit since the 1980s

except the bottom line of people who already have more money than sense