| Well here's a universalized principled argument against piracy: Given that a content creator is only able to sustainably (i.e. without going broke) create content provided that they have an income,
and given that creating content takes enough time that it is infeasible to both create content and earn income from another source at the same time,
then a content creator must be able to earn income from their content if they are going to create it sustainably. Given that consumers want content from content creators whose content they have enjoyed in the past,
and given that a content creator must be able to earn income from their content if they are going to create it sustainably,
content creators should be able to earn income from their content Given that when a person pirates (or otherwise obtains for free) content the content creator earns no income from their content
if everybody were to pirate content, content creators would earn no income from their content Given that if everybody were to pirate content, content creators would earn no income from their content
and given that content creators should be able to earn income from their content
then not everybody should pirate content Given that if not everybody should perform an action then nobody should perform the action,
and if not everybody should pirate content
then nobody should pirate content. |