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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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                  There’s absolutely something immoral about stealing. If you don’t think there is then it just means your morals are out of whack.

                  You think people renting out their property is immoral? Yeah nah, your opinion on this is wrong.

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                    Landlords are parasites that prey on the vulnerable and produce nothing of value. Corporations who own and profit from ”intellectual property” are no different.

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                    You think people renting out their property is immoral?

                    Correct. All wealth is the product of labor, therefore rent and profit are theft, and workers taking back a bit of the wealth stolen from them is good.

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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.

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                  It absolutely is stealing. You’re taking something that is not yours, something that someone else owns and charges money for.

                  Mental gymnastics.

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                    And did you at any point ask yourself why they own these things? Why Netflix the corporate entity owns media it did not produce while stiffing the people that did out of just compensation? Or how that information slightly complicates the otherwise simple nature of property and theft?

                    The only mental gymnast here is you bud. The simple fact is, labor creates value, and Netflix has no part in that. I doubt they even put up any of their own capital in producing these shows.