“You wouldn’t download a car”
Well if I could magically construct an infinite number of copies of a car it’s not the same thing…not that I would ever pirate anything! That would be a horrible thing to do
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mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 10 months agoI remember my brother once telling me this:
How is it stealing if it’s still there?
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
corship@feddit.de 10 months ago
So if I use your toothbrush to clean my asshole it’s fine cuz it’s still there right?
Maolmi@feddit.de 10 months ago
If you can exactly copy said toothbrush and then clean your filthy bunghole with the copy it is totally fine, yeah.
IHateFacelessPorn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But the thing they are selling to you is not only the data. Also the right to use it. When a studio makes a game spending millions of dollars they don’t do it so one can buy it for 60$ and others can copy from him/her eh? Try moralizing it as much as you want. (If your being sarcastic sorry about that but doesn’t look like it) Privacy is stealing, and I am accepting I am stealing. No need to think otherwise.
lorkano@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sharing pirated content to millions of people is stealing, I agree. But it started differently. You bought the CD and you could lend it to friend, your game worked. Right now you buy games and only you can play it. Which is different with any other form of physical good. I buy a car I can let someone drive it for a day. Why shouldn’t this apply to digital goods as well?
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Technically you don’t get the copy rights to a book when you buy it either, but you do get that one copy of the book and publishers can’t knock on your door demanding it back. You can even lend it or resell it.
However as far as respecting the customers rights, game and digital media companies want to set their own terms.
Is it Piracy to restore access to something you bought and got taken away from you? Well, if it is, I’m pro piracy.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Didn’t really think this one through.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure. I can even spit extra on it no charge if that makes your day. Just download me a clean one afterwards will you.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
No, because you’re still tampering with the original product, stupid