You're absolutely right, they don't they have politicians, lawyers, and police on their side.
But it is important that people know that what they're doing is illegal that way they're not surprised when they're sitting in a jail cell after downloading a full collection of hollywood movies, or needing to sell their home to pay the fines.
Also No, I'll stop once the pirates leave lemmy.world, then I'll join back under a new account probably a new name and moderate some nice homebrew communites (no Piracy allowed).
I'm going to pirate a few thousand dollars of CAD software just because I can. I was going to pick up FreeCAD but I think in this instance I'll just go borrow all of Autodesk's suite.
I love IP, they can protect my business identity and other valuable things in the world. Please don't blame IP, they don't need our oxygen. Blame the whiny toolbag.
So, you support the corporations charging abusive prices and fees to post record profits every quarter?... I'm not going to say piracy is right, ethical or should be legal, but I get it.
When we talk about abusive corporation being unethical, maybe a part of us should see the opposite as ethical too?
And piracy is not even a opposite backlash, it's a way around that helps out a lot of people in different scenarios. I used to pirate games as a kid because I didn't have any money and now I'm one of those who has youtube premium for convinience.
And there are hell of a lot more positive use cases like sharing censored data and general p2p file sharing