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geese_feces [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"

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"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"

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geese_feces [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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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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  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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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

    • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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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

  • ksynwa_from_lemmygrad [he/him, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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    Plot twist: piracy is never stealing

    • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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      piracy is sometimes stealing if you’re on a boat.

      • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Yeah but then it’s cool

        • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          It’s always cool.

          • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]@hexbear.net
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            Less cool if its not on a boat though

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              Unless you wear a cool pirate hat while doing it.

              • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]@hexbear.net
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                I can accept this compromise position

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    Remember to seed.

    • darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Farmers be like:

    • TeddyKila [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      panting

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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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