Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$)

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lazyViking@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

So by your logic, if you pay for a stripper, you should own her for life? Or does paying for a temporary service not suddenly mean ‘ownership’ applies to everything?

Buying digital media means paying for licensed access (and to be fair, I miss buying the physical media because I got to keep it without interference, It doesn’t change anything about lost revenue), just like buying a ticket to a concert or hiring entertainment for a night. That doesn’t mean you ‘own’ the performer or the venue—it means you paid for the experience.

Piracy, meanwhile, is just skipping the payment entirely. Hope that helps!

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