I just commented something similar, asking for examples of when piracy is unethical, because I couldn't think of any myself, but your example of leaking is really interesting.
I can see how pirating/leaking an unfinished work could be really harmful to the creator and I know that would feel horrible if it happened to something I'd created.
I'm not sure why there's so much acceptance of (and even enthusiasm for) early leaked unfinished products.
I'm not sure I can think of any examples of unethical piracy, except maybe bootlegging for sale as mentioned elsewhere.
I don't believe that piracy hurts anyone, so I can't understand any arguments that it's unethical.
I hear there are some nice communities dedicated to piracy somewhere on the fediverse.
I think a lot of people stopped pirating because of Netflix, when they first started and they had a lot of good content and reasonable prices.
Now that it's just full of bland Netflix Originals and they're trying to squeeze every last penny from people already battling a cost of living crisis, it might be time to dust off the old jolly roger again.
Oh but the tourism!
This is the Britain we all dream of.. isolated and desperate, wheeling out archaic practices and dressing in silly hats in the hope that foreigners might think it all hilarious enough to throw us a few coins.
Sad our society has become too woke to recognise parody.
I get it, but I've not really managed to get into Mastodon myself. I'm really liking Lemmy so far and have found a lot of great content, but even though I signed up for a mastodon account a loooong time ago I can't seem to get into it? Any tips for finding decent content?
Maybe it's just the type of platform. I've never gotten into twitter either.
We're not entirely rational creatures so even though logically we may know it won't be the finished product, it can still massively impact how something is perceived. First impressions can always make a big difference no matter how much you try to rationalise them away.
I don't know what tears of the kingdom is, to be honest, so I can't comment about that.