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by sph 12 days ago
Let's not call it piracy, please, it makes us sound like thieves.

It's resistance against mass surveillance and a State that's grown cancerous. It's any citizen's duty, really.

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It is dirtier to pay for big tech services than it is to infringe copyright.

Ironically, the big AI companies have scaled copyright infringement and appear to be profiting from it. So, pretty much: "meat's back on the menu boys".

It is piracy; It is theft, but even capital punishment has a threshold of justification, let alone theft.

Piracy is justified action in response to intrusive, mass, and overreaching surveillance by the unholy matrimony of State and Corporate.