Why do we feel so entitled to other people’s work as soon as it’s published on the internet?
When Homer Simpson reads magazines at the convenience store without paying, we understand that he’s behaving poorly. Why do we feel differently now?
Subscription was very easy. When I wanted to end it, they made it purposefully hard for me to do. I think it's unacceptable, and should be outlawed: the process to unsubscribe should be as hard (or easy) as the one to subscribe.
Since newspapers (at least that specific one) have no problem doing this as long as it's legal, why should the public be more observant of ethics?
Because intellectual property is a broken and harmful system.
P.S.: I am only reporting, this is not my attitude.
My god man with the way those things have been trending it makes you a saint lol
Although it's finely said, in a related worldview, I would adapt it to say:
> stealing from a publicly traded corporation is not a crime because they're not a person anyway
This takes away the pain inflicted on someone when stealing from that individual. Traded corporations carry no pain.
A more specific example would be ripping off the plastic packaging to read a magazine. The ones without extra packaging are designed and for a long time expected to be browsed.