No, piracy is defined as stealing a vendor's exclusivity by making copies and putting them up on a web site. Ad blocking is not the same as making copies and distributing.

You might as well argue that covering your ears during a TV advertisement is piracy. That's a strange definition of the word if I ever saw one.

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danpalmer 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I think content piracy is generally accepted to not require re-distributing. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but if I search "watch free movies online" and find a site streaming bad DVD rips, I fully believe that I am pirating that content against the wishes of the content owner.

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aspaviento 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Generally accepted by whom? There are many countries that only consider distribution illegal so I don't think it's generally accepted at all.

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its_ethan 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd say generally accepted by the majority of English speaking/western society? If someone said they were going to "pirate a movie" there's next to zero chance they are referring to the distribution side of that endeavor.

I feel like OP isn't asserting anything even remotely controversial in that definition lol

	▲	aspaviento 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Um... no? Maybe that's true for English speakers (I'm not a native speaker, so I won't make assumptions), but thinking that Western society views it that way is a big stretch, especially with streaming sites. While some might admit to watching something on a pirate site, many people don't refer to it as piracy when they're using a streaming service.

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cwillu 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> a site streaming bad DVD rips

This is redistributing.