Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...

hiremenot_recruiter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As I heard someone else put it once, “If paying for it doesn’t confer ownership, how can pirating it be theft?”

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’ve confused ownership with renting at some point and just stuck with it

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  • hiremenot_recruiter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s perfect. There was a thread not too long ago discussing how Amazon Prime removed am item from someone’s media library and gave them $5 as “compensation”. Imagine someone coming into your house and taking something they don’t sell anymore and leaving 5 bucks on your kitchen counter for your troubles. So many people in this world want their cake and eat it too, you can’t have it both ways. If it was agreed that buying a digital asset conferred some type of ownership, they might have an argument now. They made their bed, now they can piss off and do what they want with it, it’s theirs to do with as they please because we can never own a part of it.

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    • _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      leaving 5 bucks on your kitchen counter for your troubles

      More like left on the nightstand, because that’s getting fucked.

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    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When need to anthropomorphize the shit these companies do more, your example is great. People have ‘brand loyalty’, but if their favorite brand was an average person in their life 99% would be a massive asshole that kicks sand in people’s eyes.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Copying is not theft 🎵

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