Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 11 months agoPiracy can only be considered to be depriving someone of some good if you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the pirate would have paid for access to the content had they not had a pirated copy available. Not only is this not true in the majority of cases, it’s also completely impossible to prove in 99.9% of the cases where it is true.