Is it ethical to order a meal, try it, and then refuse to pay for it if you don’t like it, but pay full price through the normal process if you do like it and choose to consume the whole thing? (EDIT: Just to be clear, the preceding is absolutely ethical.)
What you are doing is roughly as ethical as that, even if (your local / the locally enforceable) laws make it a much more severely punished crime.
Food is often sold after it has been cooked and not eaten, it goes to compost and than is sold again as fertilizer or top soil. The thing is we the consumer are paying for the food that is not eaten because it costs money to compost.
Is it ethical to order a meal, try it, and then refuse to pay for it if you don’t like it, but pay full price through the normal process if you do like it and choose to consume the whole thing? (EDIT: Just to be clear, the preceding is absolutely ethical.)
What you are doing is roughly as ethical as that, even if (your local / the locally enforceable) laws make it a much more severely punished crime.
Piracy does not consume the original product like your food comparison.
Analogy is flawed.
The meal uses food that is gone after being eaten and thus can’t be resold.
A digital copy doesnt change the ability of a vendor to sell copies.
A better analogy to what OP has suggested is where a cart/restaurant offers a single bite “taster” for free to try to lure you to buy.
EDIT
“Food that is gone after being cooked” should be “Food that can’t be resold after being cooked even if not eaten”
Point being a costly physical thing has been used up. Unlike a digital copy.
Food is often sold after it has been cooked and not eaten, it goes to compost and than is sold again as fertilizer or top soil. The thing is we the consumer are paying for the food that is not eaten because it costs money to compost.
Capitalism isn’t ethical so it’s okay, just send some love to the creators
You do not order the food. You just eat cloned food.