Jordan Kendrick :popos: (@jordan_kendrick@fosstodon.org)
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@Ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

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

  • jimbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    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.comEnglish
      2·
      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?

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

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

      • jimbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        When you steal something you deprive someone else of it.

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