this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

While I appreciate the sentiment, theft of service is a crime. You don't have to be able to own something to be able to steal it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When evil hides behind legality, there's no moral imperative for good people to follow laws.

[–] Viking_Hippie 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly! So many authoritarians pretend that every law is sacrosanct to the same degree as the ones against murder and meanwhile we have motherfuckers outlawing water breaks in triple digit degrees weather and mandating discrimination!

[–] Hawke 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You do own the service though, or at least the result of it.

I hire someone to build me a garage, I own the garage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'ma sell garages with an EULA so all you own is the shelter your garage gave before I deprecated it; How's that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

When you buy a ticket to see a movie at a theatre, you don't own the movie.

[–] Thteven 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess they better lock me up then.

Wait, uh oh, is that the sound of sirens? Are they finally coming for me? Nope, it's just the cops seizing someone's civil assets at a traffic stop. Another day on the high seas for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds quite evil then, this definition of crime and legality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Theft of service is stuff like getting a haircut and leaving without paying. No, it's not evil that there are laws against doing that.

Calling software a service is quite a stretch, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

only very specific series's of ones and zeros are able to be stolen.

[–] Hawke 1 points 1 year ago

There’s a shorter word for that, it’s “number”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's always this guy who's like, aCtchUaLLy....

[–] MeetInPotatoes 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

According to the law or dictionaries? Yes.