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Piracy is not immoral (sometimes) (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by super_user_do@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'll go straight to the point:

Piracy is useful to bypass regional frontiers and access to censored content
Piracy is helpful to watch content without supporting it if you consider it not worth of it
Piracy might be helpful for content preservation and survival
Piracy is useful to ACTUALLY evaluate whether to spend money on some digital content or not
Piracy is sometimes the only way to actually own DRM-protected content

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[–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you even buy ebooks these days without going though Amazon? Aside from an incredibly small amount of indie authors (who probably got kicked from Amazon for unknowingly pissing off some algorithm) there's no place to download them and support the authors.

[–] Emerald_Earth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Barnes and Noble in the US sells eBooks in epub format on their website

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