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Why do anti-piracy people often treat us as the "villains" of the story? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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75% of the anti-piracy discussions I see rarely blame companies like Nintendo or Disney and always try to talk about how piracy is immoral, and you should feel "dirty" for doing it. My question is why do people seem to hate those who pirate more than the bad practices of mega-corporations or the fact that they don't want to preserve their media?

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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 30 points 2 years ago

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR

[-] Kyatto@leminal.space 21 points 2 years ago

I totally would

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago

In this day, I'm pretty sure the entirety of the middle class and below would if they could.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

and then download a house

[-] quirzle@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

That "you wouldn't download a car" became the meme while the ad itself said "you wouldn't steal a car" drives home exactly how effective these ads were at conflating the two.

[-] xep@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago

NOT ONLY WOULD I DOWNLOAD A CAR, I WOULD THEN WORK ON A WAY TO LET EVERYONE DOWNLOAD CARS

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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