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Hi guys, first of all, I fully support Piracy. But Im writing a piece on my blog about what I might considere as "Ethical Piracy" and I would like to hear your concepts of it.

Basically my line is if I have the capacity of paying for something and is more convinient that pirating, ill pay. It happens to me a lot when I wanna watch a movie with my boyfriend. I like original audio, but he likes dub, so instead of scrapping through the web looking for a dub, I just select the language on the streaming platform. That is convinient to me.

In what situations do you think is not OK to pirate something? And where is 100 justified and everybody should sail the seas instead?

I would like to hear you.

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Scientific articles. You're not robbing the authors of a single penny, because they don't get a cut of the sales by the publishing house anyway and the journal reviewers are volunteers.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

many, if not most, authors of such papers are more than happy to provide a copy if you were to ask them directly.

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That indeed should be the preferred route when you're not in a hurry and the contact info is up-to-date, but when you want to binge very quickly through a dozen articles as I used to do a lot that becomes impractical. Sometimes authors are unresponsive too, or deceased in the case of old articles.

[–] dog@suppo.fi 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't there an archive site for scientific papers that are freely distributed? I forgot what it was called, should bookmark it.

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

As some else said, you really should just reach out to the authors. You would be surprised at how many will gladly send you it. Plus, you now have a direct line to the person to ask questions and are showing them that people want to read their work. Academics really appreciate that generally.