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That’s if you believe that Disney properly owns the material it has claimed.

If you believe that the default ownership rights to culture already belong to everyone, pirating isn’t theft, it’s a refusal to be deprived of a natural right.

Whether Disney makes crap or not is irrelevant.

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why would you believe that, though? why do you have an innate right to someone else's work?

Because that is how culture worked for most of human history.

Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley both rose to fame by performing cover songs. This was typical up until ~1960's in America.

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