I don’t know any pirates, but I sure do know a lot of people that share copies of files on the internet.

I know I’m not putting a dent in anyone’s bottom line because my alternative to piracy isn’t paying, it’s just not consuming. If I want to support artists or encourage them to make more content, I’ll buy hard copies, go to a movie theater, or see a live show.

I JUST LIKE FREE SHIT

Paying for DRM-free quality content https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ and pirating the rest. Also promoting the concept of Big Content from Chokepoint Capitalism https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/

Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.

I saw a lot of comments talking about including “I pirate cuz I like free shit”. I was gonna but I couldn’t find a template with an extra spot :(

“What are you, a cop?”

It is only theft when taken from someone who needs it more