Piracy, in today’s context of unauthorized sharing of digital content, is wrongly condemned as immoral theft. However, it is not piracy itself that is immoral. Rather, it is the greed-driven laws and practices that censor knowledge and creative works to maximize profits. At its core, piracy is about sharing information and creative works with others, which should be seen as a moral good. 🤑
Yes. I’m all for sharing knowledge but to be honest most of piracy nowadays is porn and entertainment. So I wonder if the article argument cover them too.
Dunno about porn, but there’s cultural value in “entertainment”.
There is cultural value in entertainment. And as modern people we have a need for meaningful forms of entertainment that help us process and make sense of the world. But it’s still not “knowledge”. Knowledge needs to be free because there is no set way to use it; but Curb Your Enthusiasm is just a thing to watch for entertainment. If you are a legit Curb scholar then you have a copyright exemption, even.
You can object to the ludicrous avarice of studios and networks while still saying that creative work is real work, and that even if we personally can’t afford or don’t want to pay for it, that society as a whole should reward creativity.
I understand the points and while I don’t like the rampant corporate greed, you wouldn’t have billion dollar movie projects (or series) if piracy was entirely legal and encouraged.
I think it’s mostly that the current copyright laws and patents are unfair.
Let’s take a big IP such as star wars, wouldn’t it be more logical if it were in the public domain? It’s almost de facto in the public domain. I can refer to it and almost anybody gets what I’m talking about. It’s already a staple of our hegemonic culture. Nobody should own it.
But you know, to get those movies, I wouldn’t mind if there was let’s say a 1-2 year copyright on the movie. You don’t want to wait a year? Pay. Simple as that.
Same for patents. Ad long as we are a capitalistic society, it’s desired that research makes profit, so put a patent for a few years and voila!
In the end you are going to stimulate more research. First by sharing knowledge and second by encouraging new research which can be patented. No sitting on a patent for years doing nothing.
I understand the points and while I don’t like the rampant corporate greed, you wouldn’t have billion dollar movie projects (or series) if piracy was entirely legal and encouraged.
We may not get billion dollar movie projects, but I bet it would change the landscape and we would gain smaller projects with better results. You have to think, these billion dollar corporations stifle artist, which is why music today is synthesized crap and movie studios are churning out cookie-cutter plots and woked-up remakes no one asked to be created.
