[ SECRET POST #5654 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5654 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Look. I'm not claiming I'm a saint. I surely fucked up something in my replies and they're surely biased as hell. I'm human.
But you saying that [You attempted to speak for everyone who’s non-American] is just disingenuos. I did say MY PERSONAL reality. I pointed out that there are realities outside the mainsteam USA/West-Europe mentality that there is Amazon, Libby and Netflix and Spotify everywhere.
For a very visible example: Just fucking think about Russian people now! All major corporations pulled out of Russia because of the war. How else are russian people going to access some major media without piracy? Is it OK for them never to access the media that they love and anticipated for years just because their governement is VERY corrupted and againts its own people. I personally don't think it is.
Or IDK think of China, India, Indonesia, a lot of countries from the Middle East, etc. Piracy help the people there gaining stuff that their country deems immoral and illegal. It's essential that people with access to those media pirate and share it on the web so everyone can access them.
There are certainly people that can access everything legally from those countries, but a lot of people around the world can't. We have to recognize it.

Also, I come from a "Westen" European country. I've know poverty, I've know misogyny, homophobia, ethnical discrimination on myself. I know that not everyone in the USA and Western Europe are priviledge in the broad sense, but in the sense of digital availability? HELL YEAH, WE ARE. (I still don't have Libby access though. I KNOW BECAUSE I TRIED)
It's rare to find someone without any internet access nowadays (there are free internet access points in a lot of the major cities and even small towns), rarer than someone who can't pay their rent and bills, at least around me (again, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE). And also almost every country in that sphere have access to the majority or media corporation on internet. Is it only there? OF COURSE NOT. Australia and Japan are other two example of country with ubiquitos access to internet and streaming services.
I did say something fucking hurtful which is that "American should check their priviledge" as a provocation, which I know is a very silly thing to do because the USA is a wide country with a LOT of discrimination and social injustice going on, but I did not pretend to speak for EVERYONE who's not American.

I'm a pirate, always will advocate for piracy. That makes me a bad person in the eyes of the vast majority of people, surely. I'm a bad person also because I stole physical goods to survive when I was younger and because I stole again when I had an addiction when I was a little bit older, too. If there is hell/paradise I will SURELY and gladly go to hell.
I'm not a good person, never will be and I did some really fucked up things in my life. Some in other to survive, some because I didn't know better, some because I didn't really give a fuck.
I don't have to "justify piracy" to feel better about myself. I'm a shit person anyway. But I will forever defend it because I KNOW that not everyone has the same regional and monetary access to mainstream enterntainment and I truly think that we should not morally judge everyone that pirates because piracy is also about accessibility.

You can say it's illegal because hell yeah it is. But to say it's always BAD and [there is no good reason for pirating unless you really can’t get anything in your country without it. Which isn’t remotely the case anymore. There isn’t a good reason to do it] is just plain wrong and comes from a priviledged point of view.

(Doubt anyone will read this. I wrote this because IDK maybe it'll help me argument this thing more effectively. Also... English practise? Doubt anyone will change their moral standing about piracy because of what I say, but fuck it. I wasted 20 minutes of my life but I don't really have anything better to do on a Saturday afternoon anyway LMAO)