Luke

Yeah I’m not sure “generational” is the correct term here. It was often the same people living through those eras (and beyond) who were doing the pirating. It wasn’t a generational shift in that different generations were necessary for CDs to get copied; everyone in every generation was changing how they operated as technology changed. Piracy naturally evolved with the times. Because of course it did. Why wouldn’t it?

Humans also carry diseases and destroy the landscape and each other. By your logic, we shouldn’t care about anyone dying, or try to empathize with anything outside of ourselves. Seems like a sad perspective, IMO.

Everything has always been political. Just because you’re too privileged to notice that until someone mentions a viewpoint you dislike doesn’t mean anything except that you’re usually oblivious.