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user-inactivated · 3715 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can we cogently refute "stealing is stealing"?
I saw the letter later in the thread; I'm reading it.
I'd like to note ① I'm aware my opinions are unconventional, and I'm not trying to push them on anyone, and ② I don't actually pirate anything. Moral or practical, our current system is how individual content producers make a living, so I grudgingly participate.
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user-inactivated · 3715 days ago · link ·
I, on the other hand, am pirating something as I type this. In this thread I am merely trying to distinguish from the moral and the practical. Pragmatically, I am doing no "harm" by torrenting music. Morally, I believe I am in the wrong. It doesn't bother me. I've done worse.