It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.

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    1 year ago

    The difference being that money is finite and digital media isn’t.

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      Money isn’t finite either. States and national banks create an artificial scarcity for it because (non-digital) goods and services you can buy with it are finite.
      But since you can create unlimited copies from digital data, the intrinsic value of a copy is 0, therefore piracy isn’t stealing.

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        Abundant and infinite mean two different things though. Money is abundant, not infinite. If you had unlimited money, as you said, it’s intrinsic value would be zero