Don't forget the video piracy thread had a lot of justification to the effect of 'the people that work on these shows/movies don't get paid enough anyways, so it's ok for me to pirate'. Wait, so you think they should get paid more for their work, this what they do is worth being paid for, just not by you? Weirdest flex.
You've just made this person that you're arguing against up.
No, I've absolutely seen that argument made online as justification for music and movie piracy, many times, for many years.
People rationalizing aren't mental giants. Piracy is generally by people who want free stuff. Not by philosophers who arrived at piracy through some line of reasoning other than wanting free stuff.
The dialogue in the space is what you'd expect.
Link it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44913003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44914737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44913698