That's a nice noble reframing of humanities innate desire to have access to Game of Thrones season 2 without paying for cable.
Can I speak as one of the creative people that, you know, actually works to produce the content so many people seem to feel righteously entitled to? If you're going to pirate/copyright infringe, do so, but please stop trying to rebrand it as a freedom of speech issue. It's embarrassing.
As I see it, there are four types of people who generally don't pirate content:
- The technically illiterate.
- People who have made a conscious decision to support the producer of the content.
- People who fear enforcement of copyright law.
- People who have no interest in the content available.
The whole piracy political movement is manifestly obviously just rationalisation, with the goal of striking back at shadowy 'middle men' being particularly ridiculous.
Can I speak as one of the creative people that, you know, actually works to produce the content so many people seem to feel righteously entitled to? If you're going to pirate/copyright infringe, do so, but please stop trying to rebrand it as a freedom of speech issue. It's embarrassing.
As I see it, there are four types of people who generally don't pirate content:
- The technically illiterate.
- People who have made a conscious decision to support the producer of the content.
- People who fear enforcement of copyright law.
- People who have no interest in the content available.
The whole piracy political movement is manifestly obviously just rationalisation, with the goal of striking back at shadowy 'middle men' being particularly ridiculous.