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Good on you for being principled. I experience the same sort of feeling, and I’ve tried to just redirect that need for content into other media.

Don’t be too complacent, of course. I’ve seen people on the Fediverse turn feral and Reddit-esque during discussions of particular culture war issues. It’s not completely peachy here all the time; there are some subjects about which some people can’t help losing their composure.

Freakin’ scabs.

Alternative take: Piracy is, at worst, morally neutral, and does not have a significant adverse effect on the profits of the people who produce media.

Calm down.

This is your world on late-stage capitalism.

When not even the companies take these massive documents seriously, it’s clear that we need to rethink how this all works.

That’s not great, but I don’t think it would be utterly terrible.

I’ve never heard of Epiphany before. Anyone here have input?

Oh, that person was definitely insulting people and accusing them of addiction, and it wasn’t cool at all. I just think the whole “let people enjoy things” retort is ridiculous and overdone.

I honestly didn’t even notice that’s what it was until you pointed it out. I feel like a dummy.

I see. My apologies for misunderstanding you.

I was going to remark that I wonder what kind of person could make use of this thing, but then I remembered that this is the Internet and I could find thousands of such people with just a little effort.

More clarification would be helpful, I agree.

the same way each other digital storefront does

I’m not sure if I’m understanding you correctly, but “everyone else is doing evil too” is not an incredibly effective defense against doing evil.

Rights are not a purely legal concept. You can have rights that are not codified by law.

How about letting people enjoy things?

How is this person’s criticism preventing you from enjoying things?

I bet the Deck has a lot to do with this.

I agree, human.

I append “site:Reddit.com” (I know, I know) to basically every search I perform. It’s the only reliable way at this point to see things written genuinely by real people.