Counter-argument to "piracy is contributing to criminal networks"?

Digital Piracy is the one way we have to fight against the rich, against the megacorporations, against big tech, etc.

Think about how when you give money to Netflix, you're giving money to literal pedophiles who want to normalize stuff like "cuties". Let's say people on your group of friends don't know about such things, or think it's pointless to fight back by not having Netflix, or just want the convenience despite all that.

Now you're out of the loop on your friend's conversations, you're out of date, and worst of all, something that doesn't involve peer pressure, maybe you're really missing out on something very enjoyable. If you pirate, you're not giving them money.

Do you agree with having to pay much more that you did in cable just to enjoy the same content? Except across multiple subscriptions, which used to not include ads, but now will. Then don't pay for it, vote with your money which is where you get to them.

Do you agree with Adobe charging its clients a constant fee instead of a flat payment just so they can use the professional software you need for work? Ultimately it's more expensive for the client. Vote with your wallet.

Do you think it's even remotely acceptable that you CAN'T use Adobe products without internet? Which also leads to them spying on you in ways you can't imagine, besides the way in which you do imagine (what time you use the programs, for how long, how you type, what you type, your style, which in turn gets used to identify you when they're not meant to).

Let's say there's no internet for whatever reason, a storm, an accident, an earthquake, and no deaths or injuries, but no internet either. You have a dead line, can't finish a video on Adobe Premier. Oops, you're screwed.

At this point with how disproportionately more money the rich have over the poor, and middle class, I think it's actually unethical to not pirate. The richest people have never before been richer than now.

Additionally too many megacorporations engage in some serious monopoly practices, obviously Disney buying Fox was a big one, mostly for X-Men apparently, except to date there has been no X-Men movie, except the one that was already in work before the buyout. Look up diapers.com and see how Amazon handled that.

Finally, there's something positively utopic about piracy, specially when it comes to torrents, people offering you software out the kindness of their heart, at no expense, depending on the country there might be some risk involved, all you're expected to do, is seed back in return, and there's no penitence to not doing that, it's just not right.

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