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⌈ Secret Post #3980 ⌋

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[The Big Family Cooking Showdown]

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[Michael Fassbender/Alicia Vikander]

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[Team Fourstar/Dragon Ball Z Abridged]

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[Nurarihyon no Mago]

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[Candice Swanepoel (Victoria's Secret)]

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(Stranger Things, season 2)

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[Christian Bale]

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Yeah. It's still wrong to take something that the creator wasn't giving away. I'm not saying that if you pirated something you deserve to go to jail forever; I've both pirated stuff and bootlegged performances--as in, I've illicitly recorded theatre and concerts--but I was being selfish every time, although I justify it to myself because if there was a way to purchase a legal recording of the shows I attended, I would. But if I'd been caught I couldn't have justified it by saying listening to my crappy recordings helped my depression.

Now, if you were starving and stole food, or freezing and stole a blanket, I think that'd be different, because at that point you wouldn't really care if the blanket was orange plaid or blue stripes, or if the sandwich was tuna or chicken salad, just that you were full and warm. But entertainment doesn't work that way; you wouldn't be content with a beat-up volume 27 of Reader's Digest Condensed Books instead of an illegal download of the new Thor movie.

I don't think people should neccessarily go to jail for pirating stuff, but I think people like the OP of yesterday's secret, who pirate rather than go to their local library that they still have access to, are being selfish. They aren't out of other options, the library still exists, but they're freezing and hungry and arguing about the color of their blanket and the meat in their sandwich.

I didn't say anything to yesterday's secret maker except that they should check out their library's ebook options, because I didn't want to kick someone who was already down. But I think pirating stuff when there's a way to legally get their hands on it for free if they'd just wait a bit is shitty. Especially with books, because enough missed sales can fuck with an individual author enough that they might have to not write as much so they can concentrate on earning money to buy food and clothes and stuff.

Do you not underatand that not every random bit of entertainment available for free is going to help someone in the same way that a specific one meaningful and relatable to THEM will? Jeez. Talk about thick.

How do they know that specific thing is the only thing that will help them if they don't already have it?

Except they wouldn’t know that specific thing would slap a bandaid on their depression until they’d already stolen it. There are lots of creators who actually risk starving or freezing if no one buys their work because most everyone pirates it instead. Why do their needs not count, or their depression when their work they hoped to make a living from was stolen instead?

Tough shit. Still doesn't give them the right to steal from someone else.

I hope someone steals from you.

you wouldn't be content with a beat-up volume 27 of Reader's Digest Condensed Books instead of an illegal download of the new Thor movie.

You realize you're basically saying "you can have three rice crackers instead of a decent, filling meal," though? Sure, I'd take the crackers - but you can't call someone "selfish" or "shitty" for shoplifting a can of soup because your crackers didn't cut it and they were still starving.

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