Comment by intended

The article really uses some rhetorical tricks.

The stuff that Disney does to extend copyright is not the same as assuming daft punk is public domain.

And there’s a difference between what is human scale infringement and what’s going on now.

Nor does it mean that people don’t have the right to point out that it’s piracy.

If being more in line with the espoused values is the issue, then it’s to make an effort to ensure that we stop consuming pirated content. Or building tools to encourage piracy - this turns out to be a relatively small group of people, compared to everyone in tech.

And people have already stopped piracy - once alternatives showed up. There is the issue that you don’t own the stuff you stream, but that’s a separate topic.

The moral arguments presented persuasive.