It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t see the comparison. Archiving is beneficial for the freedom of information, but pirating is beneficial for the pirate.

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      1 year ago

      What I just said was that archiving for preservation often is done with piracy. You need to get the content one way or another to archive, especially with the vast library on there.

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          Which is sometimes not even an option offered and sometimes licencing rules will mean that no matter how many people pay for it, it’s going to be lost to the world without piracy.

          Btw, it’s cute that you think it’s the author you’re supporting, rather than the exploitative and greedy publisher. Downright adorable! 🥹

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          Archiving digital media is making backups and copies. That is what archiving those things is intrinsically, immutably.

          Making backups and copies is also what the IP owners would refer to as piracy.

          You cannot be pro-internet-archive and anti-piracy at the same time, at least not fully. They are contradictory positions.