"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"
"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"
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Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Piracy wouldn't be stealing even if buying was owning. Stealing is a crime in a moral dimension cause someone loses something
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yes but you're stealing from the alternate universe where a company would have earned money for the product you pirated, you sicko
do you have no empathy for hypothetical stockholders from another dimension?
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Going through the shop and not buying all the stuff i see: shop owner - that would be 1 million in unrealized profit, thank you very much
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Piracy is never stealing and also stealing from corpos is not immoral anyway
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Remember to seed.
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Farmers be like:
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it's incredible to me that trying to undo the damage done by these ghouls is a felony (as Cory says) in here. I don't want to be that person, but how is this sustainable? it seems like such a massive footgun for the entire functioning "western" world that I'm actually feeling some communist optimism.
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But stealing from corporations is still cool
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