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submitted 11 months ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

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[-] UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Damn, just say stealing. Thought we were pirates. Not cowards

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 41 points 11 months ago

It's not theft though. When you steal something you deprive someone else of it.

It's just copyright infringement. Since copyright is an artificial temporary monopoly granted by the government, it's pretty different from "theft".

[-] jimbo@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Are you not depriving someone else of their legal right to control the distribution of copies of their work?

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

If you don't drink a verification can, are you depriving Mountain Dew of their legal right to make you drink verification cans? If you don't enroll in the IOF, are you depriving Israel of its legal right to murder thousands of darker skinned people? Maybe some legal rights are so stupid they shouldn't exist?

[-] jimbo@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

How did your mind even come up with such bad analogies? Amazing.

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

So you are too stupid to answer the question? Blocked.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, which is not theft. It's not murder either. Nor is it blasphemy. It's just copyright infringement.

[-] jimbo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When you steal something you deprive someone else of it.

Ok, I was just going off what you said previously.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

That's just one element of theft.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 11 months ago

We're sharing.

Like Robin Hood, but in a pirate ship.

[-] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I call my Plex server Whydah Gally.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 13 points 11 months ago

Yarr we be murdering the media, just call it murder me matey.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

The media corporations in their greed and cruelty have long earned violent reprisal and deserve to be sacked.

Pirating their content is comparatively petty.

But better still is to not pirate their content and let it remain unseen and forgotten.

The reward for creators and artists is to become a part of culture. The promise of riches is a false, capitalist dream.

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