Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agoI know what I'm doing, I just don't careimgflip.comexternal-linkmessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up1288arrow-down161
arrow-up1227arrow-down1external-linkI know what I'm doing, I just don't careimgflip.comShere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square138fedilink
minus-squareSmellyNinja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down15·1 year agoPiracy is stealing- but so is capitalism so it’s fine.
minus-squareTWeaK@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoNo, it very much isn’t. Don’t buy into the media companies trying to rewrite the law in their favour. Copyright infringement is not theft.
minus-squareUriel-238@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agoProperty is theft. <Bolshevik chorus swells>
minus-squareFoxBJK@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt may sound the same but making a copy of something is absolutely not the same as taking something. It’s an important distinction.
minus-squarepazukaza@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoYou’re taking away the profit they deserve for the work and effort it took them to create the information.
Piracy is stealing- but so is capitalism so it’s fine.
No, it very much isn’t. Don’t buy into the media companies trying to rewrite the law in their favour. Copyright infringement is not theft.
Property is theft. <Bolshevik chorus swells>
It may sound the same but making a copy of something is absolutely not the same as taking something. It’s an important distinction.
You’re taking away the profit they deserve for the work and effort it took them to create the information.