It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
It is illegal and immoral. It steals the rightful intellectual property of directors and developers who are only trying to make a living. If you want to be a thief so badly, then rob a federal bank.
Food that is being thrown away can’t produce future revenue. A film that is actively streaming on a paid site can. Your analogy doesn’t work.
Wdym? The store is still selling food. If you don’t take the stuff being thrown away, you’d need to buy food from them.
The exact sets of bits are producing as much revenue as the thrown away food. But many people wouldn’t buy if they didn’t pirate, whereas people still need to eat.
Not with that attitude.
As @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works said, if you don’t get to take home free dumpster food, presumably you would have to buy fresher food.
And it isn’t hypothetical, large grocery stores are IMMINENTLY worried about this and will call the police on people going through their dumpsters, or they will pour toxic chemicals on the food to render it inedible, or any number of fucked up ways to ensure waste.