They’re against censorship and in favor of free speech. If you hear about a VPN provider that blocks their users’ access to certain things based on the owner’s political beliefs that’s a shitty VPN provider

Full disclosure. I’m not a fan of Trump. I’m just a free speech absolutist and even if I hate what someone has to say I think they should be allowed to say it.

There’s already laws against threats, slander and libel and even doxing in some places.

proton.

Proton unlimited comes with unlimited everything on proton pass, including disposable email addresses

How do you define “wealthy”?

Stealing from a millionaire that actually operates his or her own business is not the same thing as stealing from someone like Jeff Bezos who doesn’t lift a fucking finger to contribute to the operation of the dozen or so businesses he owns.

You have to have nuance. Not everything is as simple as you made it sound.

And of course, they did go out of business. That’s why they need welfare from the government now.

You should never pirate anything, that would be bad.

There are people who understand what I’m saying, and then there’s the idiots that downvoted me on some of the comments I posted

physical media is a physical finite item. digital media can be copied infinitely

the reason why physical media is getting harder and harder to find is because the copyright nazis can’t control it. If they want to memory-hole a scene, they can’t change the content of that blu-ray disc with the original version on it

PIRACY IS WRONG AND IMMORAL! YOU SHOULD NEVER PIRATE ANYTHING! FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS PIRATE THINGS!

Stealing a physical item from a giant corporate store is also always morally acceptable.

not really, it makes the store lock everything up behind plexiglass creating more friction for paying customers too.

Of course, theft wouldn’t happen nearly as much if no one was desperate the survive, but even then there’d still be entitled assholes that want even more.

I mean…if the movie is good you should support it. Vote with your wallet.

the DMCA doesn’t protect the artists or any of the singers, it protects the shitty record labels and the money that the executives at those companies get

It’s a feast fit for royalty! …To them

My cats would hate that

Think about how many times the copyright nazis have tried to crack down on piracy and then imagine how much good that kind of effort could do if they set up sting operations to catch pedos