How is piracy considered legal?

>>389596696
Laws mean absolutely nothing if no one follows them.

>>389596696
It's not. Are you ok Anon?

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>>389596696

How do illegal citizens get money from legal citizens?

How Can Our Crimes Be Real If Our Reality Isn't Real?

>>389596696

Piracy is the crime of the true gentleman.

>>389596696


Did you have the creator's permission to post that pirates.png?

Because you just pirated that image.

How can it not be considered legal?

Its funny how big companies are pro free market and open competition until they need the government to pass protectionist laws for their sake...

How is releasing shit games considered legal?

>>389597370
and tpb pretty much had their equipment stolen by swedish cops using us laws

>>389596753
It's as much this as it is a lack of enforcement. If someone in charge decided to crack down on piracy for real, tens of thousands of people from all walks of life would suddenly find themselves bankrupted and disenfranchised. It would set an example and dissuade others from doing the same.

It's not worth devoting the necessary resources to do so, but it would probably work.

>>389597690
are you like 12 years old and don't remember the RIAA slamming 300k lawsuits on random people around '04

>>389597690
It's an asymmetrical arms race. If gov tightens up agaist piracy, everyone except for the braindead sheeple would take opsec more seriously and start using VPNs, TOR, I2P and the endless array of encrypted and decentralized content sharing services, until hunting down a single individual becomes so expensive only utter retardation could keep the effort going.

>>389597690

But then hard to explain how the law could find that exorbitant means to punish so many people - if we're looking at all of them - for what amounts to a non-issue crime while the financial sector can get away with taking the world economy hostage using fraudulent practices without so much as anyone doing jail time. Hell turning off a profit even in spite of the very unlikely times when condemned.

>>389597620

Not really the same thing. Intellectual property as set up is a state-enforced artificial limit to competition. Supposedly created originally to promote creation and protect content creators from publishers and the public from counterfeit copies.

Only we no know - we have the data - big companies only patent things as a way to prevent competitors, if those can't copy, the company will just keep the data to themselves. And copyright is mostly used nowadays to protect publishers from the public, quite often at the expense of content creators. And it's used to promote the destruction of copies that are sold as such and would be bought in full knowledge by end buyers.So it's state enforced protectionism for companies, at the expanse of the social body, that fails to meet its constitutional duties.

But hey, as long as big companies are happy with their outdated model.

>>389598484

this tbqh