Comment by mrcwinn

6 months ago

> At least most pirates just consume for personal use.

Easy for the pirate to say. Artists might argue their intent was to trade compensation for one's personal enjoyment of the work.

The gut punch of being a photographer selling your work on display, someone walks by and lines up their phone to take a perfect picture of your photograph, and then exclaims to you "Your work is beautiful! I can't wait to print this out and put it on my wall!"