Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months agoThe 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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.
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
Stop reading my comments if you aren't going to pay me.
SCB@lemmy.world 11 months 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
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
Someone sharing content on a peer to peer distribution network is not using the digital distribution service of whoever sold the content. They are not 'stealing' HBOs bandwidth to share Game of Thrones.
They are sharing a thing that they initially paid for from HBO at no cost to others, similar to letting your friends watch it with you on your TV at the same time. The only difference is scale.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
You’re not using their distribution service when you pirate something. That’s the whole point.
psud@aussie.zone 11 months 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