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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 27 points 1 week ago
[-] Kyatto@leminal.space 19 points 1 week ago
[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 10 points 1 week ago

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

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

and then download a house

[-] quirzle@programming.dev 8 points 1 week 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 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

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