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        Become a film director or major video game developer and have your content ruthlessly stolen then.

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      Copyright infringement is absolutely the moral thing to do in quite a lot of cases. For example, for the preservation of cultural works. Corporations aren’t exactly spending their money on proper archives and the people to curate them. Quite the opposite! For example, if some or all of the lawsuits against sites like archive.org are successful then the result could be a mass erasure of cultural works on the scale of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

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      Me playing a small violin very emotionally at the thought that a media mogul won’t be able to afford his 750th super yacht because of piracy 😢

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              Only hand drawn ones or e.g. 🚓 I stole this one from the interwebs. Now you saw it, you gotta pay the owner. THOUGHT CRIMe

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                  Ok, I’m not sure if you’re for real, but I have a feeling you’re one of the dudes with the writers/actors strike and I have to say that as someone who hates barriers to knowledge I also respect your struggle to keep doing what you love. I just feel like studios are getting too greedy on both ends in an attempt to prop up unsustainable profit margins, thus making it hard to afford services and hard to live on the wages they pay.

                  /rant That said, scientific paper publishers are another beast and the worst offenders (e.g. see a paper related to climate change for 48 hours, 40$) many researchers don’t get paid to write the paper or even pay to have it published, only to see it paywalled, so nobody will even read it legally, so they can oversharge universities. /rant off

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                    Re: rant. Yeah, normally none of that goes to the authors of the paper. So you’re not really taking anything away from them.

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                    Also, I have read about academic gatekeeping scams and how you can email the authors who are glad to CONSENSUALLY provide you with access to knowledge.

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                    I am not an actor. I don’t have the coordination or speech consistency for that endeavor. But yes, I am for real. All of a sudden having an opinion, a remarkably controversial one at that, means that I’m a troll. I tend to get adamant about opinions. Good that I’m not a politician or… ha.