Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWe pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.message-squaremessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down113
arrow-up1297arrow-down1message-squareWe pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail.Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squareGeodad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down1·3 months agoIf buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t theft.
minus-squareTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71arrow-down2·3 months agoPiracy already isn’t theft. At worst, it’s unlicensed copying. Conflating copying, where the original is not lost, to theft, where it is, should never have been done and was only ployed by the big companies to make it sound worse than it is.
minus-squareBluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 months agoFrom God’s lips, to mine ear.
If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t theft.
Piracy already isn’t theft. At worst, it’s unlicensed copying. Conflating copying, where the original is not lost, to theft, where it is, should never have been done and was only ployed by the big companies to make it sound worse than it is.
From God’s lips, to mine ear.