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          1 year ago

          Why would something be unethical if nobody is hurt?

          Why are you conflating damaging property with causing harm? It’s at least arguable that an invasion of privacy is harmful, regardless of whether or not property damage occurs.

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              Here’s another example. Say a person makes pornographic photos and videos for their significant other, suppose that content gets leaked onto the internet and is uploaded to popular torrent sites without their permission. How is piracy of this sort of content not an invasion of privacy? How is piracy of this sort of content not unethical?

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                  1 year ago

                  wut??? nobody in their right mind downloads that stuff! that is NOT what we are talking about, we are talking about movies and games and music

                  I felt like it was pretty clear that I was not talking about things as small as pirating a couple movies and games from multimillion dollar companies?

                  you really made this up out of nowhere. nobody defends distribuiting private pictures of people… and BTW in that case is not piracy by definition…

                  Is it not piracy? Please clarify the difference to me?

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              In my example privacy invasion definitely occurs. If you disagree with that, then you should review what I initially said.

              If the notion that when people don’t want to share things with you, you have an unqualified right to take those things, and that doing that is just inherently not damaging, then I think your position is unrealistic and incredibly self serving.

              Do you have some point to make here besides claiming you’re just never doing anything wrong when it serves your interests?

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                  Your point is wrong. My point is that you can’t always (ethically) just copy other peoples stuff, just like you can’t always just take things from people. My point is not that piracy is never justified. My point is not that you are personally doing something wrong by pirating things. My point is not that you can’t be justified in copying other peoples stuff sometimes without permission. My point is not that piracy or copying other peoples data and documents always causes harm.

                  Edit: When was pirating “publically available” software specifically ever central to my point?