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.

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      Which is sometimes not even an option offered and sometimes licencing rules will mean that no matter how many people pay for it, it’s going to be lost to the world without piracy.

      Btw, it’s cute that you think it’s the author you’re supporting, rather than the exploitative and greedy publisher. Downright adorable! 🥹

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      Archiving digital media is making backups and copies. That is what archiving those things is intrinsically, immutably.

      Making backups and copies is also what the IP owners would refer to as piracy.

      You cannot be pro-internet-archive and anti-piracy at the same time, at least not fully. They are contradictory positions.