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by megous 3357 days ago
I couldn't care less about content creators. I'll start caring a little bit when they stop stealing from me every single time I buy a SD card, or HDD, or DVD, or whatever that has some storage in it that will never see any of their material. Until then... Piracy is also a form of protest and a valid one. It's a shame that when they make something worthwhile at times, I'll pirate it too, but if they want to be indiscriminate, I'll not bother discriminating either.

To clarify: I live in a country where we have to pay tax to content creators organization every time we buy something with storage. And it's not an insignificant amount. Justification being: "It can be used for storing copyrighted material (music and movies)."

1 comments

"I couldn't care less about content creators."

Then stop consuming content.

"Piracy is also a form of protest and a valid one."

No more than me coming up and taking your stuff, or me hiring you and then refusing to pay you.