-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

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Lord Ciansworth said:

DKHustlin said:
Another thing that bothers me about people getting on pirates cases is sometimes money is not your fault, when youre in your teens and not born to a rich family how can you make enough money to buy tons of music. Conversely, why should someone who was simply born rich get to experience more music movies etc than someone who isn't but who could be more passionate about? Also, you can't control where you are born so that should also limit your choices of what you can experience? Fuck that I only have so much time in my life to do things siooooooo i'm going to make the most of it.

I hope that's not a serious argument in favour of piracy.

I'm not rich enough to buy a Ferrari so I'm justified in stealing on from the manufacturer instead? And before you claim otherwise, yes, it is the same thing. If you can't afford something, you don't acquire it. Simple. People go the effort and expense of creating a good and aim earn a living by selling that good. That's their choice. If you want it, you must pay for it. Why should the creators of goods be out of pocket becaue of your lack of morals?

I have pirated in the past, and it's something I now deeply regret. Anyone who attempts to justify piracy, on any level, is plainly wrong. A creator of goods is entitled to sell them at the price he likes, where and how he likes. If you are unhappy with those conditions, don't avail of the good. Simple as. Nothing, however, gives you the right to steal anything from anyone else.

If we go the creator of goods, now especially for artists, have you ever heard of adhesive contracts?

These force people to give the distributional rights of everything they create during the period of the contract to a company (sometimes these contracts last over 20 years), now this isn't really a problem... unless you are for example a programmer and you write a programm in your free time while being employed at a company, then often the contract with your company forces you to give the distributional rights for the programm written in your free time to the company you work for. Now it can even become more ridiculous, in some countries (e.g. Austria) programms are considered a piece of written art, now often these contracts aren't just limited to programms but written arts in general, so if you write a book in the meantime, there go your distributional rights. Now taking it even further (this is not as often used as the former contract clauses) that if you have programmed or written anything on that Book/programm during your employment you are also forced to let go of your distributional rights.

Now hold on there a minute son, you might say, it's your own fault for signing that contract, well then, try to find a company that does not want to steal your distributional rights, its their money after all...

Now I have kept this whole thing above incomplete to keep it somehow easy to understand, but companies always screw over the artist...