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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (18 children)

From my understanding theft has always been to take something and after the other party doesn't have it anymore. This never applied to piracy.

For example: I used to pirate games back in school as I didn't have the money to buy them. So there is no financial loss for the company. Yet they still frame it as bank robbery or something. "You wouldn't download a car"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Hollywood was so adamant about "not downloading a car".

Now they are the ones downloading actors.

[–] martino 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Hollywood was so adamant about "not downloading a car".

That was a meme. The original ads were always "you wouldn't steal a car". Someone doctored a screenshot from the ad as a joke and now there are a whole bunch of people who think the ads actually said that.

[–] tpyo 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

you wouldn't steal a car

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] AtariDump 2 points 10 months ago

You wouldn’t steal a baby…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

YoU WouLDn'T DoWnLOad a BEAR

[–] AtariDump 2 points 10 months ago
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