Hi guys, I just wanted to call out an inappropriate term I’ve seen used sometimes: Civil Disobedience. It’s not just civil disobedience when you pirate something privately, you need to do it publicly and dare the authorities to do something about it.

So an example here would be to set up a massive leech party and advertise it specifically as civil disobedience. Say all manner of things from all manner of copyright holders would be transmitted, and try and get news coverage. That’s civil disobedience.

Just downloading a movie because you want to watch it is not. OK thanks for your time.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    See: Grey Tuesday

    https://www.eff.org/pages/grey-tuesday

    EDIT: The entire purpose of Civil Disobedience is to force the governments hand by making clear how unpopular what they’re doing is. It’s intended purpose is absolutely to change the direction of representative government.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fiery-socialist-challenged-nations-role-wwi-180969386/

    Eugene Debs going to jail for speaking against the War and breaking anti-sedition laws in the process is an example of Civil Disobedience. You sitting on your fat ass not risking anything and pirating an episode of The Real Wives of Orange County or some other useless fucking pop-culture drivel is not and will never be Civil Disobedience.

    “Civil Disobedience” when no one sees what you’re doing is just “disobedience.”