Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV
by asdff on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:03AM
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Personally, I have no qualms avoiding paying 3.99 or whatever to rent a digital file that made its money back thrice over before it left theaters.
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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV
by dwrowe on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:55AM
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“You wouldn’t download a car” arguments aside - what is the ethical boundary for “They’ve made enough money - I’m entitled to enjoy it for free” ?
Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV
by DoofusOfDeath on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:16AM
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I agree, that's the kernel of the issue here.
TL;DR: I'm curious if there's a way to make effective ethical arguments when people have fundamentally different world views, including whether or not morals have any solid grounding.
Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV
by mantap on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:30PM
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You can judge a moral system by how society would evolve if everyone followed it.
If nobody pirated anything then we would still be buying music for 99 cents a track (or more) and music streaming would have been quashed by the labels.
On the other hand if everybody pirated everything then the music industry would have collapsed.
I conclude that the world needs all sorts of people.