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

• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You seem to not understand what “theft” means.

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  • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a thing and than someone takes it away, so I can’t use it anymore. If somebody copies that thing - it’s not really theft.

    My point is more - concepts from physical world don’t nessessary apply to digital world.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If somebody copies that thing - it’s not really theft.

      Yes, it absolutely is, by any standard.

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      • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure buddy what ever makes you happy.

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      • TootGuitar@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You say “ask the dictionary” — multiple dictionary definitions as well as Wikipedia say that theft requires the intent to deprive the original owner of the property in question, which obviously doesn’t apply to copyright infringement of digital works

        You say “ask the law” — copyright infringement is not stealing, they are literally two completely different statutes, at least in the US.

        So, what the hell are you talking about? Copyright infringement is not theft.

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    • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It just seems that what you are saying is that people shouldn’t be paid if their work doesn’t create something physical.

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      • gapbetweenus@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nope, that’s not what I’m saying. I just make a difference between copying, stealing, physical goods, digital goods and immaterial things. They are not the same.

        Easy examples: original and copy does not really apply to digital works or two people on opposite sides of world can have the same thought but not have the same physical object at the same time, etc.

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