Hi guys, first of all, I fully support Piracy. But Im writing a piece on my blog about what I might considere as “Ethical Piracy” and I would like to hear your concepts of it.
Basically my line is if I have the capacity of paying for something and is more convinient that pirating, ill pay. It happens to me a lot when I wanna watch a movie with my boyfriend. I like original audio, but he likes dub, so instead of scrapping through the web looking for a dub, I just select the language on the streaming platform. That is convinient to me.
In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something? And where is 100 justified and everybody should sail the seas instead?
I would like to hear you.
When the money goes to people who did not create the media. Support creators, not exploiters.
That’s almost everything.
Correct.
That’s why I pirate almost everything
If that is really your top order concern, then when you pirate you should figure out what their cut would be and send them the money directly. But it’s probably safe to assume you do not do that, so this argument is not really in good faith. I know that phrase is thrown around a lot pretty willy-nilly, but I think it’s very applicable here. It also does not make you a bad person for not sending them that money. I don’t do that either. I just don’t think it’s a good argument for that reason.
If you actually did that, then I would think you are more or less honoring the spirit of the law. Yeah, that doesn’t hold up in court, but at least the ethics of it is a little more consistent. Then you get a little bit into a sticking point about other people involved in the process who are being cut out, such as an editor or a VA doing audiobooks. But that’s getting pretty thick in the weeds/doesn’t universally apply so I’m not going to really hammer that point.
You are saying that you would prefer to get paid per sale instead of per hour?
I did both and prefer my money per hour. No matter if the sales are low or high. The fluctuation of payment is an insecurity that i don’t want.