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

• snooggums@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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?

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  • sdoorex@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stop reading my comments if you aren't going to pay me.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        HBOs service is “provide access to GoT”

        If you provide access to GoT, by acquiring their content and then redistributing it, you are stealing the same way you pimping your prostitute is stealing.

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• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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