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| 30 | <p>Coming soon!</p> | 37 | <h3>Preventing Piracy: A Guide On How To Avoid Pirate Activities</h3> |
| 38 | <h4>Foreword</h4> | ||
| 39 | <p>I am a man who has despised piracy and the works of copyright thieves my entire life. As soon as I could | ||
| 40 | understand what copyright was, I became a massive proponent for it and for what it stand for: Order, a | ||
| 41 | bullwark against those who'd stoop so low as to steal someone else's idea and pawn it off as their own. | ||
| 42 | I can not STAND pirates, I get physically violent around them, my family has banned any mention of pirates | ||
| 43 | or pirate adjacent activities in my presence! Yet however much I hate pirates, I understand that some people | ||
| 44 | simply do not know better; some are ignorant to the damage they're doing by downloading a game or a book for | ||
| 45 | free. Seeking to better your knowledge is no excuse, even for those who are trying to learn about the law itself! | ||
| 46 | Yet again, it is understandable that some people may not truly grasp the gravity of their actions. That's what | ||
| 47 | this guide is for, for those who don't know how to avoid piracy!<br> | ||
| 48 | <br> | ||
| 49 | In this guide on avoiding piracy, I endeavour to teach you, the reader, on how to spot piracy in the wild, | ||
| 50 | how to resist the siren call of free stuff, and the most common / popular services currently used in modern | ||
| 51 | copyright theft. | ||
| 52 | </p> | ||
| 53 | <h4>What IS Piracy Anyway?</h4> | ||
| 54 | <p>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines piracy as:</p> | ||
| 55 | <blockquote cite="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy"> | ||
| 56 | ... The unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright | ||
| 57 | </blockquote> | ||
| 58 | <p>While the Cambridge Dictionary defines piracy as:</p> | ||
| 59 | <blockquote cite="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/piracy"> | ||
| 60 | ... The act of illegally copying computer programs, recordings, films, etc. to sell them at much cheaper prices | ||
| 61 | </blockquote> | ||
| 62 | <p>Now these definitions, while succinct, are insufficient for truly understanding what piracy is and what it entails. | ||
| 63 | What does it mean to "illegally" copy a piece of media, or to "infringe" on copyright? Maybe Wikipedia's definition | ||
| 64 | of piracy is better | ||
| 65 | </p> | ||
| 66 | <blockquote cite="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement"> | ||
| 67 | Copyright infringement <em>(at times referred to as piracy)</em> is the use of works protected by copyright without | ||
| 68 | permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted | ||
| 69 | to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, | ||
| 70 | or to make derivative works. The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a publisher or other | ||
| 71 | business to whom copyright has been assigned. Copyright holders routinely invoke legal and technological | ||
| 72 | measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement | ||
| 73 | </blockquote> | ||
| 74 | <p>Ok now we can work with this. Summarizing, piracy -- or copyright infringement -- is when someone does something to a | ||
| 75 | copyrighted work without permission, like making a copy and redistributing it. This is, for the most part, the extent | ||
| 76 | of piracy for most internet users: the copying and redistribution of a copyrighted work. The actual details of real | ||
| 77 | copyright law are a bit too verbose and unnecessarily fine-grained for this guide, so I'll spare you the detail.<br> | ||
| 78 | <br> | ||
| 79 | TL:DR - Piracy is the unauthorized copying and redistribution of a copyrighted material | ||
| 80 | </p> | ||
| 81 | <h4>But Why Do People Pirate?</h4> | ||
| 82 | <p> | ||
| 83 | People pirate for a multitude of reasons, all unacceptable, but some more "valid" than others. Some of these reasons | ||
| 84 | include:<ul> | ||
| 85 | <li><b>Pricing</b>: The pirate may believe the copyrighted work is priced too high, or may be unable to afford a legitamite purchase</li> | ||
| 86 | <li><b>"Trials"</b>: The pirate may wish to trial the copyrighted work, say in the case of software, to determine its "true" value</li> | ||
| 87 | <li><b>Availability</b>: The pirate may be unable to acquire the copyrighted work through legitamite means, and is | ||
| 88 | forced to pirate as a means to access the content</li> | ||
| 89 | <li><b>DRM Removal</b>: The copyrighted work may employ <abbr title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</abbr> as a | ||
| 90 | means to prevent pirates from exploiting their work, which may interfere with the legitamite use of the | ||
| 91 | software/media</li> | ||
| 92 | <li><b>Flagrant Disregard</b>: Some people simply disagree with the concept of copyright, and become pirates as they do not respect the law</li> | ||
| 93 | <li>etc.</li> | ||
| 94 | </ul> | ||
| 95 | Again, none of these reasons are valid excuses to break the law:<ul> | ||
| 96 | <li><b>Pricing</b>: Many things are unaffordable to the average person, such as a jet carrier. Should I be able to | ||
| 97 | steal a jet carrier just because I selfishly believe the price I was given is "unrepresentative" of the | ||
| 98 | actual value of the jet carrier? No! That would be completely preposterous.</li> | ||
| 99 | <li><b>"Trials"</b>: If a company wished to offer a demo of their software for the general public to trial their | ||
| 100 | software and determine if they should purchase it, then they would simply offer the trial. Furthermore, | ||
| 101 | acquiring a full copy of a piece of interactive media such as software or a video game is NOWHERE near | ||
| 102 | a traditional "demo", as the entire content of the media is contained within the pirated copy. If the | ||
| 103 | pirate didn't wish to pay for the real product, but still wanted to use it, there would be nothing | ||
| 104 | preventing them from simply using the copy they already have</li> | ||
| 105 | <li><b>Availability</b>: This is possibly the most understandable reason as to why someone would intentionally | ||
| 106 | commit piracy, however it is yet again unacceptable. There is plenty of media that has been rendered | ||
| 107 | exclusive to a specific piece of hardware, most notably game consoles. A game which is exclusive to Xbox | ||
| 108 | or Playstation should not be pirated just because it's otherwise exclusive! That's like saying you should | ||
| 109 | be able to steal one of the motors out of a Tesla brand car just because it has motors and your car doesn't!</li> | ||
| 110 | <li><b>DRM Removal</b>: DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is implemented in a piece of software or media as a | ||
| 111 | way to prevent pirates from stealing their product. However, sometimes the measures taken impact user | ||
| 112 | experience and simultaneously fail to prevent pirates from stealing. This is unfortunate, yes, but wouldn't | ||
| 113 | be necessary if it weren't for pirates in the first place! You can't seriously blame the inventor of barbed | ||
| 114 | wire for the injuries of criminals who can obviously see the danger and still cut themselves on it. It's an | ||
| 115 | even more preposterous action to blame him for the injuries of innocents when it's the installer's fault for | ||
| 116 | the faulty use. Don't blame DRM, blame the pirates. And if you can't blame the pirates for some reason, blame | ||
| 117 | the companies who implement DRM in ways that harm the consumer</li> | ||
| 118 | <li><b>Flagrant Disregard</b>: I shouldn't need to comment on this, but I shall regardless. We depend on law and | ||
| 119 | order to keep the peace in modern society. When someone willingly goes against law and order, they are naturally | ||
| 120 | enemies to society as whole and must be dealt with swiftly. While copyright infringement may feel like a | ||
| 121 | victimless crime, it is far from one, and it really does harm the companies it affects. Furthermore, if someone | ||
| 122 | is so willing to skirt the law when it comes to something like copyright infringement, what's preventing them | ||
| 123 | from skirting the law in other places? Pirates are already stealing, so what's to prevent them from shoplifting | ||
| 124 | or snatching purses from frail old ladies?</li> | ||
| 125 | </ul> | ||
| 126 | </p> | ||
| 127 | <h4>Avoiding Piracy In The Wild</h4> | ||
| 128 | <p></p> | ||
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