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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)
submitted 11 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] 5 points 11 months ago

I never made an agreement but to copy things without paying. That agreement was made on my behalf, and if you look into the history of it, it's really fucking shady. Copyright in the US originally lasted 20 years (IIRC), and I would be ok with that, but big copyright holders successfully bribed lawmakers to extend the term until now it's effectively infinite.

So tell me, was it immoral to ignore copyrights after 20 years when that was the law? Did changing the law change what's moral?