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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, thanks for the engaging discussion. Goodbye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Communication is hard, especially when you’re not having a verbal/visual conversation where you can pick up on audio/visual clues about what the person is saying. Have you considered that you might be jumping to a conclusion about what the person is saying, without realizing there might be other meaning to their words?

  Better yet, rather than having this meta-debate about what a person who is not either of us meant, could you comment on the substance of my post?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how the original poster meant it, but one possible way to interpret it (which is coincidentally my opinion) is that the concept of intellectual property is a scam, but the underlying actual legal concepts are not. Meaning, the law defines protections for copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets, and each of those has their uses and are generally not “scams,” but mixing them all together and packaging them up into this thing called intellectual property (which has no actual legal basis for its existence) is the scam. Does that make sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For someone who bitches all over this thread about people strawmanning their position, this is a pretty fucking great reply.

  Hint: one can be pissed about people throwing around the not-based-in-legal-reality term “intellectual property.” One can be pissed about people using it as part of a strategy to purposely confuse the public into thinking that copyright infringement is the same as theft, a strategy which has apparently worked mightily well on you. One can be all of those things, and yet still feel that copyright infringement is wrong and no one should be entitled to “literally everything someone else creates.”

  What you posted was a textbook definition of a straw man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother/sister in Christ, everyone in this discussion is talking about copyright infringement. That is the actual legal name for what we colloquially refer to as “piracy,” according to, you know, the law, which you previously referenced as something we should look to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple uses a unified memory where the memory chips are embedded on the SoC in the first place. The memory modules are on the same silicon wafer the chip is cut from, not separately on the Mobo

  This is 100% false. All Apple Silicon Macs use standard LPDDR4X or LPDDR5 memory chips, the same as are used in other computers, which are soldered on a PCB next to the SoC. They are not on the same die. The high memory bandwidth on M1/M2/M3 comes from having a lot of memory controllers built into the SoC – it’s akin to a PC with an 8+ channel memory setup. As far as I’m aware, there’s nothing technically preventing Apple from making an Apple Silicon mac with socketed memory again, other than those sweet sweet profits for shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is incorrect; the M-series chips all use standard LPDDR4X (M1) or LPDDR5 (M2/M3) chips, not part of the SoC, and soldered directly next to the CPU. The SSDs are also standard NAND chips, again external to the SoC, connected via PCIe.