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Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”
(pluralistic.net)
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This post seems to be largely about the value of product ownership and the harm that DRM brings to the end user, and does a great job at making that point. However, the title seems to have caused a different discussion to spawn in the comments about whether piracy of digital content is justified. This is just a casual reminder to read the article before replying in the comments.
This should anyway be a sticky to every post about third party content.