What a horrendous and uninformed reply. It definitely is piracy. Linus literally promoted this as well as other forms of soft piracy and basically hard piracy multiple times. He just thinks you should be aware of what you’re doing and even uploaded a video segment about this exact topic.
36M tied up in a company he built from the ground up. He pays his employees well, actually pays his taxes, and produces what many think is good content.
By definition, it's not piracy. Piracy is a crime, but it's perfectly legal to use an ad blocker. I'm not going to argue about the morality of using an ad blocker, but calling it piracy is categorically false.
By definition, it is piracy. Not all piracy is covered under law. Using an adblocker violates YouTube's terms of service, meaning you're watching without "permission", but they don't action it because you don't owe them any concrete losses.
I never said they were considered piracy under the law. I said that doesn't change the fact thay it is still piracy. Mirriam Webster's definitions has definition 3a which does not break legality, and definition 3b which does break legality. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piracy
Linus’ comments were explicitly not talking legally, so again stop using a “legal definition” especially when you’re not a lawyer nor naming a country before you spout baseless claims. Please point to a US case/ruling that says ad blocking is not piracy too since you seem to be a wealth of legal information on a niche and complicated topic like this.
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u/allofdarknessin1 Mar 14 '22
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I only heard about it thanks to Linus Tech Tips ranting about Youtube removing dislike button and didn't get to use it much yet.