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If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing (fosstodon.org)

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

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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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[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Yeah I'm a huge pirate but I also have subscriptions to publications, buy a bunch of games, buy music and even have almost every release from a few labels, go to concerts as much as I can. It's not about the money for me at all

[-] alvvayson@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

We should call it archiving instead of piracy to be honest.

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Great idea! It's up to us to preserve culture, we can't leave it to those only motivated by profit otherwise cultural history will be lost when it becomes unprofitable.

And since we're not coordinating, I'd better make sure I preserve the bits of culture important to me.