What I’d tell my own kids about piracy

Acknowledging and accepting copyright is to acknowledge and accept that some people have a right to hold everyone else hostage over chunks of the human knowledge space for the paltry purpose of financial gain. Not for safety. Not for privacy. For creating profitable asymmetries to exploit.

I don't buy it. Keep your plays, your shows, your novels. Hold it tight to your breast if you want it. But turn it into 0's and 1's and my, see how it flies!