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WarmWash | on: US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
>In my book, none of the Hollywood deserves a single cent. It’s an amazing feeling to be in the power to dictate this.

Then you don't consume it...you boycott it. Freeloading on honest consumers isn't some kind of moral high ground. If Hollywood is corrupt and full of shitheads, letting someone else pay for your ticket doesn't make you a morally pure viewer.

It's fine if you just own that you don't want to pay for what you consume. But don't try and paint yourself like some kind of saint, lol

chrischen | parent | next
The whole concept of intellectual property rights is a social and legal construct designed to promote innovation in an economy. If you don't care about that, then there really isn't any moral or immoral aspect to it. The immorality of it and associating it with stealing was just MPAA propaganda to try to shame people into paying for stuff.

If I found some DVD lying on the ground and watched it and I didn't pay for it, it's really up to me to decide if I want to pay the creator so they can continue to produce content. If I don't pay then obviously it doesn't help them produce more content... but the consumption of the content itself neither felt nor heard by the creators.

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ndriscoll | parent | next
I don't consume it because it's crap, but IMO someone who doesn't give money to Disney (a company that pushes gambling on people and is a major reason our copyright laws are broken in the first place) is more moral than someone who does, and the downloading itself is amoral. So if you're going to watch it, might as well pirate.
3form | parent
>But don't try and paint yourself like some kind of saint, lol

They didn't do that. Listed considerations were purely practical.