[mika69]

Piracy at it again.

[isk517]

It's hard to make any sort of argument towards piracy being immoral when stuff like this is allowed to happen.

[Libcat99]

If the vendors pirate your money, it's only fair you pirate their content.

[Habgdnv]

Isn't it time for a big lawsuit against some large ISPs (like Verizon) for allowing Sony to scam people like that? If there are 2 people scammed, Sony can get away with a warning, but if there is 3th - they should disconnect all Sony related servers from the internet. That should be fair.

[BSDobelix]

The problem is that the long nose of the law only points in one direction.

[Semaphor]

This is not piracy. Piracy is duplicating content, this is theft. From what I was told by mafiaa, this should be punished harshly.

[tomjakubowski]

I think GP's sardonic point was that this sort of thing is more analogous to actual piracy than torrenting is -- people are actually being deprived of things they purchased here.

[ummzokbro]

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.(1)

This term was coopted by the MAFIAA because literal descriptions such as file sharing or unauthorized copying are not objectionable to the general public who see them as minor / insignificant and thus are not sensational enough to draw the outrage needed to enact disproportionate criminal penalties(3) and thus preserve their monopolistic(2) profits.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy

2 - By way of ridiculously long copyright terms or distribution oligopolies / monopolies

3 - See 'conspiracy to commit' charges carrying de-facto life in prison penalties

[akomtu]

"Your honor, the act of downloading a movie creates a new copy of it, and if the value of this movie is as much as the prosecutor claims, downloading creates value."

The word "piracy" is only applicable to sketchy businesses who profit off someone else's work without permission.