It doesn't matter if it's a CD, a Film, or manual with the instructions to build a spaceship. If you copy it, the original owner doesn't lose anything. If you don't copy it, the only one missing something (the experience) is YOU.
Enjoy!
Of course, if you happen to have some extra money for donations to creators, please do so. If you don't have that, try contributing with a review somewhere or recommending the content, spread the word. Piracy was shown to drive businesses in several occasions by independent and biased corps (trying to show the opposite).
Lol, love hearing this moronic argument. If you had the magical ability to point at an object and clone it out of thin air, that also wouldn't be stealing.
If I pointed at a Rolex on a person's wrist and magically an identical copy of that watch appeared on my wrist, nothing was stolen, because nobody was deprived of anything. The net amount of that thing in the world only increased, and nobody was dispossessed of their property.
I hope you've never walked past a concert venue and heard some of the music being performed without being in the venue, otherwise by your logic, you are literally a thief who robbed that artist of their intellectual property and should be arrested and imprisoned. At the very least, made to pay restitution to the artist and record company for the cost of the music you "stole" from them.
Miss me with that bullshit.
I'm not OP, but i think you're being intentionally simple-minded here...
So following your argument further, if we all did this no one would produce anything because they'd never get paid.
Then what?
The point is, there's hundreds of hours of work in most things. What you're saying makes sense if we're taking about a shitty NFT that was 'someone drawing their cat in MS Paint', but an album or movie that involved many people and lots of labour is different because they deserve to be compensated for their work.
Back to your example, no one measurers songs heard in the seconds they were experienced and seeing the performance is probably the key part if we were breaking it down... Waking past a venue isn't taking in the show (sneaking in and getting the full experience would be. Admittedly, of it's an outdoor venue the example gets muddier!)
So, what I'm arguing, is that what's morally wrong about piracy is not fairly compensating the workers that produced it. They deserve their time and expertise to be traded for (sorry, in not finding the words I'm wanting...) and that's where the theft lies
You are literally saying this on Lemmy. A piece of software that is developed for free using other software/tools that are free, and run on servers that are hosted by others for free. Most open source projects work this way. People are fully capable of doing things because they want to. Not everything needs to be profit-driven.
If we all did this, what would happen is there would be way less slop and lazy cash-grabs. Because the only people left making things would be the ones who are actually passionate and believe in what they do.
...and crucially, don't NEED to be paid for their work.
Yes, FOSS is 'a thing', but it doesn't require complicated and expensive things like sets, locations and recording studios - because code is entirely abstract, it doesn't have these constraints.
Yes, there will still be the occasional thing from a passionate story-teller, but without the budget to ensure the appearances are as intended we'll be far more limited in what stories we can tell (however, I'd gladly live in a universe without the constant marvel drivel!). We'd still be excited about 70s era star trek-type stuff, not the recent Dune movies...
While there's certainly shitty cash grabs going on, there's still passionate story tellers and the reason everything these days is shitty cash grabs is because we're all pirating everything the studios won't take a risk on a genuine story