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I think your argument attempts to highlight a hypocrisy where mine highlights consistency but I may be misunderstanding.
If you go back to my original comment you'll see that I said:
That's the "Piracy OK" side, so yes, there is hypocrisy there. I'm reminded of the classic "what kind of woman do you think I am?" story.
An unfortunately apt analogy in its misogyny.
'A billionaire offers to kill a man, proposing a price paid to his family of $1 billion dollars. The moribund man says "sure!". "And what about if you pay me $1000 for the privilege?". "What kind of man do you think I am?". "We've already established that and are just haggling the price"'. A less misogynistic, less funny but accurate version of the joke.
Murdering criminals, we all agree on. Murdering the family man only works if he consents. It doesn't make him hypocritical or suicidal to reject a price.
If AI and media companies treated their employees well and offered fair terms for a subscription, the advocates would probably not pirate or boycott.
Again I am not that kind of pirate and I'm pro AI, but I don't think their views are inconsistent or anything. So anyways just my take but your stance is interesting too.