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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Piracy has never been stealing. It's copyright infringement. The two are completely different.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Media corporations try to pressure us into thinking that piracy is stealing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yep. Because stealing is a crime that goes back thousands of years. It was an old crime by the time the 10 commandments were written down. Meanwhile, copyright infringement is a new thing that's maybe a few centuries old at most, and it's a lot more morally ambiguous. Is it wrong to infringe on a monopoly that the government has given a corporation over the sharing of a tangible expression of an idea? Maybe sometimes? Maybe not other times?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Image didn't seem to load for me. It get deleted?

[–] ReiRose 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, but is says: "if buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago