Jordan Kendrick :popos: (@[email protected])
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@[email protected] @[email protected] 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.

  • mercEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

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

    • jimbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      When you steal something you deprive someone else of it.

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

      • mercEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        That’s just one element of theft.