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If people could be owed profit just for creating things, I could go around town singing my original music to people passing by and then forcing them to pay for listening to it.

The difference being, those people didn’t ask for your music, but you needed that software, otherwise you wouldn’t use it.

and neither does intellectual property, it’s a myth, a fable, a fabrication that is enforced by powerful corpos in order to forcefully extract undeserved profits from a market of artificial scarcity that they created in the first place.

Lol, so basically confirming my last paragraph then, “doesn’t actually exist” because its digital, what a take.

You are absolutely correct, we should not have law enforcement at all, just ask the people to arrest themselves when committing a crime, i’m sure that’ll go tremendously!

I’ll go back to my construction analogy

I think that’s a bad analogy, isp’s and dns providers have the ability to control mass amounts of traffic, enforcing site blocks at isp and dns level would be the most feasible way to do this. They’re also likely much more capable of moderating the internet than small websites which don’t have time to do so.

Digital piracy is not theft. There is nothing stolen.

Out of curiosity, what are you’re thoughts on the below scenarios:

• attempted robbery
  If you go to a bank and attempt to steal money, but you were unsuccessful in doing so, there wouldn’t be any loss, but you’d still go to jail and it’s widely accepted as wrong.

• getting a service, e.g going to the barbers and running out of the store before paying
  There wouldn’t be a loss again

People only seem to gloss over theft when it’s digital, not taking it seriously, it might not directly cause a loss for the developers, but if you’re in a situation where you can afford the software but choose piracy to save money, you’re leeching off someone else’s time and resources, and taking away money that could have been paid to them, for your own selfish desires.

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Who else do you expect to enforce site blocks?

I don’t want my local ISP to be making judgments about whether my neighbor is pirating movies

I mean, piracy is a real crime, you might not be a software or game developer but if people were free to pirate without consequence, those jobs would be crippled. You wouldn’t go into a bookshop and steal a book, why is software viewed any differently?

I don’t know what fantasy land the eff is living in, but as great as freedom of speech is, there has to be SOME level of censorship involved in the modern internet, otherwise it would be hell. It’s simply not feasible to run the internet unmoderated…

In other news: the sky is blue

It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

Whether its lemmy or mastodon, or kbin that grows, we’re all benefiting. That’s the beauty of federation.

When you think they couldn’t get more scummy… they strike again. It’s as if musk is actively trying to turn his platform to shit.

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Quite the opposite, brave’s defaults are very good. An alternative to brave on the firefox side would be librewolf, which gives firefox great defaults, but the issue with that is that they disabled auto updates, and there’s still a lot of people on the windows side not using a package manager (even though many exist).

bullshit integrated into it.

And again, there’s no “bullshit” if you don’t explicitly opt into the crypto.

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