Originally Posted by donkevlar

On one hand already popular musicians, big movie companies, big software companies, porn producers etc are seeing less income. CDs are becoming the new vinyl (for collectors, mostly). ETC.

On the other hand: People are listening to way more music then they could EVER afford, watching more movies they could ever afford to rent. (and better music and movies at that).

People have collections of software that would normally cost them thousands and are learning to make music, edit photos, edit video, 3d modeling, coding etc.

Poor people can simply download pirated eLearning courses and educate themselves for free on damn near every subject.



So at the end of the day from an outside perspective do you think piracy is beneficial to mankind as a whole? Why? Why not?

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