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Re:Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent... by paulcole on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:09AM (#16211183)
Dark patterns don’t “make” people pirate.

Pirating is the act of saying, “I want something I don’t have the rights to have.” And then taking it. Period.

There’s no way to rationalize immoral unethical behavior by hiding behind “psychological studies” and “dark UI patterns”.

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Re:Netflix plans to spend $8B to make its library 50 percent... by AFNobody on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:55AM (#16214512)
You seem to think I'm rationalizing the morality of the act by pointing out the morality/ethics is really just another thing humans bend on when the incentives change.

If you want to argue incentives are fictional because "morality", I think we aren't going to have a productive discussion.

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