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What would you considered "Ethical Piracy" (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.

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[–] magmaus3@szmer.info 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IMO it's better to not pirate small indie content (mostly games in my case).

[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assuming they release on Steam of course

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Steam really needs their 30% cut, good you’re here to provide it to them

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

To run a storefront and do R&D to develop handheld PC's, simple at-home streaming, and higher quality VR? Yes, it's reasonable for them to charge an industry standard rate as a storefront

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Steam offers rather valuable services to the developer in exchange for that fee though. You get to use Steam's existing infrastructure for content delivery, payment processing, advertising, community management, authentication (not necessarily DRM), multiplayer services, etc. instead of having to implement and maintain it all on your own. Self-publishing is not easy nor is it cheap.