If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 1104 points –
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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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Let's get crazier.

Our current favorite show is Bob's Burgers, it's a comfort show we fall asleep to. Prior to signing up with real debrid I got tagged for downloading a 2 year old episode.

We pay for Hulu. We pay for YoutubeTV. We have a working OTA antenna (for when the internet goes out).
My math says I have 3 licenses, yet still illegal to download?

The whole "illegal to download" bit is somewhat misleading. People almost always get in trouble for uploading, which just happens to be a part of how bittorrent works. When you're downloading, you're also uploading (Unless you've changed your settings).

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