Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A library card is your ticket there and libraries are paid via taxes, which is why they’re free at point of use.

  Attending a free concert is not stealing. Breaking into the Eras tour is.

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The library buys once and allows multiple people to read/watch each item without each person needing to individually purchase. Just like one person buying something and sharing it with others.

    The main point is that digitization distribution is not a concert

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Digital distribution is a service. You can steal a service.

      If you fuck a prostitute and then don’t pay them, you are stealing from them.

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      • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If the prostitute uses a technique, and then you use the same technique without paying hem for reuse, is that stealing or does their direct involvement matter?

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      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re not using their distribution service when you pirate something. That’s the whole point.

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s okay I won’t use their digital distribution system to pirate their stuff.

        It’s just like falling to pay a prostitute you never fucked

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• ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Libraries get money via tax. What people here are arguing for is that others should work for them or free. Because game studios, for example, are overwhelmingly not paid via tax money. They are depending on people buying their software.

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