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As a gainfully employed adult, it is hard to personally justify piracy of entertainment media. Now if this discussion was about open access to science, medical, and technical papers, many of which were funded by tax payer dollars, then you'd have my donor dollars. Otherwise you are championing an issue that is doubtfully on anyone's top 100 problems list.

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Just because, as a gainfully employed adult, you can now afford it, doesn't mean it's right; doesn't mean the system isn't in need of fixing. It just means you're now able to ignore the problem.

One justification could be that the percentage of the profit which lands to the original creator is often peanuts.

We have an _enormous_ industry enforcing copyright laws which barely make sense, and imo that industry is parasitic

We often use popular mediums as a stepping stone to help discuss these more important pieces of media, make no mistake, open access to intellectual materials is our goal, alongside entertainment media, to a different degree.

That's you. Not everyone has that. Also think about something:

What's your opportunity cost as a result of trivial replication and propagation being locked behind mechanisms that facilitate the creation of artificial scarcity?

I'm voter in the United States and this is on my top 100 problems list.

> Now if this discussion was about open access to

Yes, that's what piracy enables, if the legislation isn't successful.

What about DRM?

We can't stop here, we also need initiatives to promote open source.

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