Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by adrusi on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:13PM
(#23826722)
You can think it's bad to pirate media and still be hard-pressed to care when someone does it.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by bickeringyokel on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:19AM
(#23829379)
I'm almost at odds with myself on this. I think it's probably somewhat unethical to pirate stuff, but it's much more unethical to aggressively punish people that do... For the most part
The effect is so intangible for the large media funded projects as well, pirating your local struggling musicians might be another story, but is that really much worse than the current streaming model what you get paid a few thousand dollars for millions on streams?
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by wccrawford on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:41AM
(#23830374)
I feel like that would be a rare soul these days. People are so prone to screaming about every little "sin", even if it's really nothing. It's like they can't distinguish between things that are bad and things that are unconscionably bad, and scream at the same volume regardless.
> I feel like that would be a rare soul these days.
Remember, there's a big selection bias on that impression.
After all, the people who think it's none of their business if X at work is sleeping on the job don't post about it on social media.