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- Piracy -

I think piracy is a very helpful practice with grey legal & moral roots. I think it is useful as an option for consumers when they want to use / have a product without dealing with arbitrary restrictions, whether that be in the product itself or the accessibility of it.

To me, people who discuss piracy seem to always be under a false dichotomy fallacy[1], seemingly forgetting that there are other options between not paying or paying & not using warez[2].

Look at it this way, you have bought the product, given monetary compensation to the respective parties and are now using a pirated version which arguably makes the product better, are you in the wrong?

I suppose an argument could be made about companies being hurt by users not getting the intended experience by using warez, to that I respond with this, whose side you would rather support? individuals who provide the consumer more options or a corporation who prioritises money?

I also believe that if companies removed the shitty stuff from their products, there would be less of a need for people to consider warez. Yes I said need, because if people no longer use warez, what will stop us from growing complacent with whatever crap companies put in their products which does not benefit us?

I mean, warez are free and have other bonuses like repacks for example, those are video games compressed to a maximum amount for efficient transmission through the net for people with very low bandwidth speeds as they can use an unpacker tool provided by the repack author to let their computer unpack at the expense of computational power, not internet bandwidth.

Another benefit is that warez remove digital rights management, DRM is anti-consumer and has a lot of negative associations with it. This as a result gives the user more freedom & removes arbitrary restrictions controlled at the whim of a corporate entity's will.

Some food for thought.

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