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Re:Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked by yieldcrv on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:03AM (#38037884)
Moral justification: it’s never been on the consumer to know if a distributor has a license. We dont know if Walmart has a license to every media we bought there, we dont know if Netflix really has a license to every media we watched there, we dont know if the seeder on a torrent site has a license either. There is nothing preventing Walmart or Netflix from distributing via bittorrent as seeders either.

Not our problem, never was.

Turn off upload if you don’t have a license, enjoy.

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Re:Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked by rhino369 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:18AM (#38114725)
You do know the seeders on BitTorrent don’t have a license though.

Just admit you don’t care about pirating from a major company. You don’t have to lie to yourself to concoct a moral justification.

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