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.
So this is sort of a specific case but I think there’s something to extrapolate here potentially.
I have young children and let me tell you, nothing makes their anxiety spike like modern streaming apps. It’s too much input, it’s too many ads, it’s too many choices, they just get utterly paralyzed because these companies have almost 20 years of “best (i.e. worst) practices” for making sure you do not spend a second away from their systems if it can be avoided. They have spent billions in their goal of keeping us on and engaged. Toddlers are not able to handle that.
I recently set up a plex server at home and I keep no more than 10 videos on it at a time. Everything available is right there in front of them in an incredibly digestible manner. I’m pretty sure there is nothing on that server I’m not paying for elsewhere, but I don’t want to get too specific and I won’t pretend that “I already pay for this” factors into my decision making when deciding what content is best for my kids. Either way, I have paid for a lot of this stuff and continue to do so. If it mattered to someone, they could easily make sure that’s the case for all the stuff they download and they could argue they’re honoring the spirit of the agreement while also depriving themselves of most of the catalogs they are already paying for. Especially if they are paying for subscriptions and such that don’t run ads, so one couldn’t even argue they’re dodging ads i.e. a way they get paid.
If this winds up in your article please let me know as I’d like to screen it. I can’t make you but figured i’d ask.
Any content that exists solely to put ads in front of my kids is 100% fair game and not just ethically allowed, but creates an ethical necessity to remove it from it’s advertising.
I could see that but I also wouldn’t classify anything on my server (aside from 2 youtube rips) as existing solely to put ads in front of my kids. Those 2 yeah no qualms here lol
I am thinking specifically of broadcast tv kids shows that I have no problem with my kids watching, but that are broadcast with kid targeted ads in my country. I much prefer to rip them and let the kids watch them without commercials.
Sure makes sense. I think once kids are involved you pretty much have primacy in 90% of scenarios out the gate.