• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    8 months ago

    How do you figure that it’s not stealing? The way I see the word stealing used it seems that piracy would fit under that definition. There is plenty of times we would say someone stole something that isn’t physical. Example of someone has an idea and they tell me and I go and take that idea to market before them they would say I stole it even though they still have their idea.

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      8 months ago

      You have an actual loss in that scenario, but in the case of digital piracy most people wouldn’t have bought it anyway. Hence, no lost sales.

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        8 months ago

        You can’t make the claim that most people who pirated wouldn’t have brought anyway. Also if most people wouldn’t have brought then you still can’t claim no lost sales because most isn’t all.