While consuming the content, you’re avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!

  • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 days ago

    you are involved in the deal, because advertisers pay by how many times the ad is displayed (or clicked). just like how you are involved in the deal between the distributor and cinema, because the pay depends on how many tickets you buy.

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      2 days ago

      If that’s the extent of my involvement, Following that thought, an ad blocker means I’m not involved in the deal anymore?

      • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        1 day ago

        as much as sneaking into a seat in a cinema without paying means you’re no longer involved in the deal. so yeah, you might have a point that you’re no longer involved in any deal, but i’d still call that piracy.