Present day with 2005 desktop.
samus12345
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Which of course makes no sense - if you don't have the money to buy it either way, pirating has no effect on revenue.
The only time I see piracy as unethical is if you would have paid for it otherwise and it's a small creator who will actually notice the lesser revenue. This covers very, VERY few cases because the vast majority of the time if something is good enough to want to pirate it, it's popular enough that more than enough people paid for it to adequately compensate the creator.
Basically, are you hurting the creator's ability to make a living by pirating it? Giving them less money when they already have more than enough doesn't qualify.
You wouldn't download a Rick and Morty meme
It may be copyright infringement, but not stealing.
I am Groot!
Built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!
AKA the fat one. Always thought it would look like a picnic table if you brought the nacelles forward to the center of the saucer.
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Lemmy.world is about a year old. It definitely wasn't two years ago.