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I actually think piracy is more like speeding than civil disobedience for most people. The intent of most people who pirate things isn't to get caught and change the laws. The intent is to just ignore a law that is inconvenient.

And it is sort of similar in the sense that, copyright law is over aggressive, honestly, many speed limits are set too low, violation is pretty wide-spread, and within reason it seems basically fine.

It breaks down a bit at the edges though, because extreme violations of speed limits can result in harm and death, while copyright is just lost profits.

>>bee_ri+(OP)
> It breaks down a bit at the edges though, because extreme violations of speed limits can result in harm and death, while copyright is just lost profits.

It’s not remotely the same amount of harm, but mass violations of copyright seem to be able to end series and potentially production companies. Netflix and Hulu appear to be making go/no-go decisions about a series after the first few days/weeks of viewership data.