• HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      No one pays to watch ads. They pay to watch movies and shows, which are (optionally) supplemented in cost by ads.

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              You mean should they choose to steal them? No shit, everything is free if you steal it. Not everyone wants to be a thief.

              • It’s not theft, because it doesn’t deprive the original owner of anything.

                But if it did, theft from billionaire hollywood studio owners is cool and good.

                You’re not paying the wages of the hollywood workers, you’re just increasing the funds the studios have to break the worker’s strikes and further depress their conditions.

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                  It’s legally theft. You can try as much mental gymnastics as you want to try and convince yourself you’re not breaking the law, but you are.

                  It’s probably the most victimless theft that there is, but it’s still theft.

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                    What’s legal is not necessarily what’s moral, and there’s nothing immoral about freely procuring an infinitely replicable digital product. If anything, it’s immoral to enclose upon them and charge rents for them. No better than landlords, the big streaming companies, save for the fact that entertainment isn’t vital for living.

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                    I’m quite aware there’s some silly laws written by those same billionaire’s lobbies and passed by their politicians.

                    Copying something is quite obviously not stealing from someone.

                    But again, stealing back some of the wealth the billionaires have stolen from us is morally good. If you’re not stealing from them, you’re stealing from your family to support your family’s further deprivation.