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[–] [email protected] 102 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it's not

It's piracy, a different crime

A crime I love committing babyyyyyyyyyy

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

We here at Futurama do not condone the cool crime of burglary.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, when you steal something from someone then he does not have it anymore. With indefinitely replicable virtual goods that is not the case.

[–] veni_vedi_veni 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They have to recoup and make roi on their r&d

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

.... therefore we need to build and violently enforce a legal regime to ensure that content profiteers can extract 100% profit from every transaction?

[–] veni_vedi_veni 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't make the rules. Blame shareholder fiduciary responsibilities or the spineless politicians. Corporations are gonna corporate

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

By that logic you can't blame the politicians because they got bribed, and you can't blame the citizens because of corporate propaganda and voila! No one has moral responsibility for anything

[–] veni_vedi_veni 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Politicians' fiduciaries are their constituents though, so they are the failure there though if they allow corporations to get away with long term harm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for some abstract shame or morality to guide politicians' actions when all the systemic incentives point in the other direction