If you truly didn't want to be tracked, you wouldn't watch movies from any website at all. You would simply pay cash at a local store for the movie on a disc, or go to the cinema. Saying "I don't want to be tracked" is not a great excuse for piracy.
That said, the U.S. government gives me all the free movies I could ever watch. It's hard to see much difference between a torrent site and a public library. Of course, the libraries are tracking me too.
This article lists over a dozen services that any of the major record labels had more than enough resources to create in the last 20 years as a service to musicians - the kind of service they're supposed to be providing. It's their own fault they couldn't see the future past the bottom line.
A wonderful utopian dream - but it doesn't consider greed, corruption, class disparity, power, inequality, and human nature, which means it could never happen - at least not in the utopian manner you'd want it to.
If you're going to devise a new economic or political system, it has to consider all those negative factors and presume they will be part of the system.
Absolutely, but that would have just increased their suspicion and made him more of a target.
And he's probably one of those people that thinks since they've done nothing wrong, they have nothing to worry about. After all, cops in the U.S. don't steal like the ones in third world countries.
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That said, the U.S. government gives me all the free movies I could ever watch. It's hard to see much difference between a torrent site and a public library. Of course, the libraries are tracking me too.
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If you're going to devise a new economic or political system, it has to consider all those negative factors and presume they will be part of the system.
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And he's probably one of those people that thinks since they've done nothing wrong, they have nothing to worry about. After all, cops in the U.S. don't steal like the ones in third world countries.
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