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If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing (fosstodon.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Are you not depriving someone else of their legal right to control the distribution of copies of their work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you don't drink a verification can, are you depriving Mountain Dew of their legal right to make you drink verification cans? If you don't enroll in the IOF, are you depriving Israel of its legal right to murder thousands of darker skinned people? Maybe some legal rights are so stupid they shouldn't exist?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did your mind even come up with such bad analogies? Amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So you are too stupid to answer the question? Blocked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, which is not theft. It's not murder either. Nor is it blasphemy. It's just copyright infringement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

When you steal something you deprive someone else of it.

Ok, I was just going off what you said previously.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

That's just one element of theft.