>>153699
I agree with >>153702, pirating something from a company that rakes in billions each month is way different than pirating something from a company struggling to stay afloat and should be punished accordingly but also in a sane manner (don't sue me for thousands of dollars if I pirated a 5 dollar product for example), I would argue that pirating something you had no intention of buying anyway is absolutely fine since you were never a potential customer anyway

I'm an artist and the only things I have against AI is that most of the time they look bad, lack anything that makes them stand out and are often dumped in the thousands to the point that searching for a particular image online gives you more AI generated images than not
I draw because I like drawing but also because my currency is people's replies (nothing is more pleasing than a thread I start with a drawing of mine full of replies and contributions, believe me) so someone scraping my works to feed an AI isn't something I give too much thought about.
It's different with artists who are in it to put food on the table, now I can't imagine willingly putting yourself through that instead of finding a real job and drawing on the side, but nevertheless in that case copying an artist's artstyle may be damaging to them, if someone wants to copy a broke artist's artstyle I think that, at the very least, they shouldnt post all of them online or worse ask for money in return since that's essentially a direct attempt at putting the artist out of work
>What kind of seven seas have you plundered in your years
It mostly happened during my youth when I had no money to my name and both my parents were working extremely hard just to make ends meet so I'd pirate games and movies, often getting malware.
>>153713
I only read that when talking about adobe and people say adobe is evil (i dont doubt it but i dont care enough to find out why), so I interpret it as stating that pirating adobe products is something that everyone SHOULD do to punish adobe for their evils