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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (98 children)
  • When you take 5 eur from my pocket - you are stealing.
  • When you take 5 eur from my pocket, make a copy and put my original 5 eur back to my pocket - this is not stealing.
[–] SCB -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (16 children)

If you have sex with, but don't pay a prostitute, are you stealing?

[–] Wrewlf 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did they consent to the free sex?

[–] SCB -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No because the entire metaphor is built on the concept of prostitution

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Prostitutes can't have a romantic life unless they're paid to do so? This is such a bizarre metaphor, let's see where it leads 🍿

Also: if there's no consent it's not steeling, it is rape. It's really strange to think how because of someone's profession we recontextualize the act as steeling and not rape. Ie it's like saying one is steeling from prostitutes while not addressing the fucking rape. This is your brain on Milton Friedman economics - where your body is capital and it has a price.

[–] SCB 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hey dude it's called a metaphor. Sex is a fleeting service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sex is a fleeting service.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

[–] SCB 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You buy it and have it for a short period of time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, that's the definition of a service. Just not sure what your point is about talking about prostitutes as if one was steeling a service when they get raped. Steeling from creatives is rape or something?

[–] SCB 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The metaphor is both limited and clear and any failure to understand is so absurd as to seem intentional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Wait, instead of metaphor you meant a literal example? Absurd indeed to compare rape to downloading something illegally.

[–] SCB 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hey dude put your effort elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Working on it

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Thank you for fighting the good fight. This dude is unhinged

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