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You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever (www.currentaffairs.org)
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[–] 53 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

Pirating is not and never has been stealing. You do not deprive anyone of anything when you make a copy of something.

Copyright is a dumb as shit system of artificial scarcity and always has been.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Its kinda true. I like to think of gog and gog-games. One is a storefront. One is a clean ui with all the games downloadable for free.

    I think many would still use the free one vs paid. Myself, there's something about owning it.

    I pirated doom eternal back in the day. I was enjoying it so much I just bought it instead. 🤷

    I get what you're saying with "copying" vs "stealing", which is true. But if you could clone your friends car for free you don't need to buy a car and the business loses a sale.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago*

    The business loses a sale of what though? A copy they never created or had possession of in the first place?

    If I go home and build a PC, can Dell claim that I deprived them of a sale of a copy of one of their computers?

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