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'i don't think piracy is an effective political practice'
in everyday practice piracy isn't meant to be a political act, it's a way to get things for free, someone stealing food doesn't need to have some political justification to do so, but it's still a political act.
What is I think *revolutionary* about piracy, even if most pirates don't realize, isn't that it hurts corporate revenue ( which arguably it doesn't for the most part ) it's that by torrenting or using/sharing pirate websites you're in effect building distributed network infrastructure that is resilent to corporate censorship and provides needed information for free.
We could just stop calling it piracy altogether and call it 'file sharing' which is what it literally is.
in everyday practice piracy isn't meant to be a political act, it's a way to get things for free, someone stealing food doesn't need to have some political justification to do so, but it's still a political act.
What is I think *revolutionary* about piracy, even if most pirates don't realize, isn't that it hurts corporate revenue ( which arguably it doesn't for the most part ) it's that by torrenting or using/sharing pirate websites you're in effect building distributed network infrastructure that is resilent to corporate censorship and provides needed information for free.
We could just stop calling it piracy altogether and call it 'file sharing' which is what it literally is.