If I were to steal cable, I would be using the cable company's resources to deliver content to my house without paying for it. If I were to set up an inductor under a power line to steal power, I would be depriving the power company of power they could have sold to somebody else without giving them anything in return.

When I torrent something, I don't even put any additional load on Netflix's servers. With their current monetization scheme I don't even make the show's producers any less money.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

And when you subscribe to 1 or 2 rotating streaming services and only torrent for personal archiving purposes, you aren't even depriving the streaming services of any revenue.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

When you steal cable, you don't deprive the cable company of anything.

[–] AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I torrent something

wrong.

I torrrented a gratis OS called Arch the other day. Please understand torrenting doesn't equate to copyright infringement.

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 2 points 11 months ago

It was clear from context what was meant, i.e. torrenting copyrighted content. Let's not be disingenuous about this.