If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing
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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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I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.
"Piracy isn't stealing" doesn't require a qualifier. It's objectively a separate, lesser crime. That correlation is just the result of effective, aggressive marketing that conflates the two. It was so effective that everyone misremembers the "you wouldn't steal a car" ad.
I think you mean this one
I think you just solved the housing crisis because this lives rent free in my head
Same!
Thanks for that trip down memory lane. I was just a child when I saw that, and my first thought was "but... But when I steal from someone, they don't have it anymore. If I download it, they still have it"
lol. You give an ad spot way too much credit
Call it "illegal copy" (because fuck customer rights with "usage licenses") and we're good.
The one with the pirated music?
No, that was a different one.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
the "you wouldn't
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