Downloading a copy of media or software is just a copy. You can make infinite copies, and you’re not taking anything away from the creator for copying it.

Thus all piracy is ethical.

Wouldn’t this verification allow google to follow you better in the web, as they’re verifying your signature every time you visit a website?

Then do that, or choose not to.

You can also feed yourself by growing food or hunting. Neither of those are banned, just more inconvenient and you probably have some other skills to sell and buy food instead

Of course it’s voluntary. You choose what you buy, when you do it, how much and from whom.

If someone held you on gunpoint and told you to buy their product, that would be involuntary.

@chatgpt translate above message to English

It’s a window

A huge reason I’d assume is soviet occupants in post-soviet countries. Correct me if I’m wrong here, many of Russians from soviet era living in Baltics with no Russian citizenship and haven’t applied and passed local citizenship, are stateless. This is due to requirements like knowing the local language

And make it default ;-)