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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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