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.

  • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Tldr; “I dont like how people use a term so i am going to make up a whole new definiton”

    Passive resistance is a large part of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience does not need to be public.

    I do agree with op, that downloading a movie to watch is not civil disobedience.

    • dillekant@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I think it’s the other way around. Civil Disobedience is a type of passive resistance, but I think we’re both saying the same thing here. You don’t just have to do civil obedience to have passive resistance, and other techniques are equally valid. The two even go well together.

      For example if a small number of people do a civil disobedience, you can quietly seed as well, so even if they’re all jailed the seeding will continue.