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But yet, they still take the content. It's a half-hearted and disingenuous form of boycott. If the goal were really to send Hollywood a message, and to take an absolute moral high ground in doing so, then wouldn't a more effective message be sent in not consuming the product whatsoever? Not buying it and not pirating it?

Not participating in a societies culture is a very high price to pay for not wanting to support how companies distribute said culture.

If libraries were to disappear, would you still claim people should stop reading if they won't want to or can't afford to support the publication of certain books?




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