User:Nick Baratta/Information ethics/Bibliography

My Bibliography
As there are no citations needed in this article, I would like to contribute a small section to the "Ethics of Downloading" section. My passage is as follows. The general opinion of whether digital piracy is ethical or not is mixed. According to a 2020/2021 study done by MDPI about the interpretation of digital piracy in youths, they reported varying opinions on the subject, and did not lean any one way.

One such opinion was that "it is abusing the authors content" and "we don't care", citing that such behavior is the nature of the internet.

A unique take on the subject in youths was that "almost everyone has downloaded something illegally at some point [sic]", diffusing the severity of the crime, and making it more of a morally gray area.

On top of this, most agreed that digital piracy is far less of a crime than stealing something from a store, say, a physical release of the same media being pirated online.