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by MBCook 3202 days ago
You went back to violent metaphors. Those seem far too strong for this issue.

The MPAA is not actively attacking you. They’re putting conditions on how you can view their content.

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The only reason I'm resorting to violent metaphors is that our moral intuitions are usually more clear around those than around fairly recent societal constructions. Given the choice, I would rather be beaten up than subjected to any of the potentially life-wrecking legal threats listed in section 3 of https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2..., and I would think that this preference ordering is neither uncommon nor irrational. Given that, in what sense are the violent metaphors "too strong"?
> The MPAA is not actively attacking you.

Letting the police do the attacking stuff is just a formality.