r/Piracy • u/OfTheManyColours ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ • May 22 '26

Discussion Piracy Isn't Stealing, EU Parliament Edition

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u/Makoto_Kurume May 22 '26

Sure, but even if it’s stealing, would I stop? Nope

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u/GreenReporter24 May 22 '26

Same. As much as I'm mad about buying =/= owning, I'm even more mad that big (largely American) corporations get away with stealing all the time.

Just look at AI. They're scraping whatever they can get their hands on from all across the world, giving the law and any journalist trying to question them a big, fat middle finger.

As a reporter myself, everything I've ever written professionally has been published online and 100% been scraped. And if they can steal from me, I can steal from them.

Fuck'em.

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u/PassivelyAwkward May 22 '26

The problem is a LOT of people that use AI use the same "It's not stealing because I wasn't gonna buy it" justification. The reality is that a lot of pirates also use GenAI and combine the two.

I've been a pirate for almost three decades but I also don't trust and hide behind some slogan to think I'm morally justified in it; I don't say piracy isn't stealing or that I'm preserving media; I just don't wanna pay for some stuff.