Comment on We 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.

Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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• Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  From God’s lips, to mine ear.

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