It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.

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      copyright is theft. creators that have had their creations taken away because rich people own their IP now.

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        It becomes universal knowledge which is what we should all strive to achieve, the right way. When the copyright expires, time is up for any gatekeeping of inspiration.

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              Im asking what specific item do you remember entering public domain? The creator of the Lord of the Rings died in the 70’s and his work is still under copyright.

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              So are you morally opposed to all the crap disney has done to ruin the public domain for entire generations?

              That seems worse than pirating a disney movie to me.

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              70 years after the creator death. Stuffs should become public domain once the itrms no longer make significant revenue or no revenue at all

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      If I steal your purse, you don’t have a purse anymore. That’s theft.

      If I ride the subway without paying, I’m possibly taking away the seat from someone that paid. Not theft but close to it.

      If I pirate a movie I would never have paid for anyway, I’m not taking away anything from anyone and I am not even causing lost income for the producer (cause I never would have bought it). Literally no one is worse off due to my actions, the only difference is that I’ve watched a movie.

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      All theft is wrong, but it is much less sad when someone steals a diamond from Jeff Bezos than it is when someone steals a loaf of bread from someone who is starving.

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        “all theft is wrong” nah.

        If the starving guy from your example stole food from jeff bezos to survive then that is morally correct theft.

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          I agree with what you’re saying, it could be argued that it’s wrong that the starving guy needs to steal in the first place, but that’s probably semantics.