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Pros And Cons Of Movie Piracy

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Fifty years ago, internet problems were not in existence. Internet crime was not a possibility. The only problems humanity had with piracy was on the open sea. In the twenty-first century, a different kind of piracy exists—movie piracy. Even though people say that knowledge should be shared freely through the internet, movie piracy is unethical because pirating is stealing, making money off others’ products, and financially harming the producers.
Stealing cannot be limited to physical theft. Pirating movies is also stealing, thus unethical. Hardy, Krawczyk, and Tyrowicz, faculty of the Economic Sciences Department at the University of Warsaw, explain that victims of physical theft lose not only the object that was stolen, but also the money that they could have made with that object (Hardy). Pirated movies do not seem like they are being stolen since the producer still has possession of the movie; however, the producers are still losing customers to pirated movies. When producers work hard to create a movie, they own the movie. The only ones who have the right to use the movie however they please is the producers; everyone else needs to ask permission before coping and selling it. Since the producers never gave the pirates permission to use their product, it would be considered stealing. If a pirate records a movie from either the movie theater or from the CD, they are stealing from the producers because they were never given permission to copy the movie. Driessen explained that even if the pirate is not making money, they are still being unethical and are considered pirates (qtd. in Storrs).
Pirates are also ethically wrong when they not only watch and copy the movie, but also start selling it as if it was their own product. They are literally using all of the producers’ work to make money for themselves, profiting completely off the work of other people without their permission. An example of this would be like going to a farm in which you do not own and selling their product for your own gain. Pirates should respect the producers enough to realize how much effort they put into making these movies.
Pirating movies also financially hurts the producers. If someone pirates a movie instead of

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