Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year agoA 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.
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
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.
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?
sdoorex@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
If you’re going to retype the code of a program from scratch, then your analogy is valid. If instead you are taking the production created through someone else’s labor without compensating them, then you are stealing from them.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Idk if you are like a virgin or what, but prostitutes don’t become prostitutes because they know secret techniques.
The metaphor is describing the service provided, and that not paying for said service is indeed stealing.
Trying to make it a different metaphor requires a new framework from you
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 year ago
You’re not using their distribution service when you pirate something. That’s the whole point.
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