If buying is not owning, piracy is not theft.

wing-_-nuts an hour ago | parent | next [-]

A buddy of mine is pretty insistent on physical media, wherever possible, and honestly, at this point, he's been proven right again and again.

Sad that most executable code (games, software, etc) these days is digital only and requires drm calls to a license server to install. I will not pirate executable code.

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dylan604 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I like how succinct this is.

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nekusar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Piracy was never theft.

It was a copyright violation. Which, I don't give one fuck about.

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matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah. Copyright monopolists equate copyright infringement to literal high seas piracy because it's the only way they can make any impact. Nobody would give a fuck otherwise.

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nekusar 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And the OTHER copyright monopolists (Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, X) proved the rules don't apply to them with copyright.

And then Anthropic publically bellyaches that "WAHHHH CHINESE ARE STEALING OUR STOLEN DATA WAH". Lemee get that worlds tiniest violin for that sonata!

These days if you're following the rules, you're a rube and a stooge. And you will be taken advantage of again and again and again.

	▲	matheusmoreira an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. It's so disgusting. One would think dozens of SWAT officers would rappel down helicopters and storm the mansions of these big tech CEOs. Unpayable trillion dollar fines, actual prison time. Instead the AI companies reached some absurd settlements with publishers that made a mockery out of all the previous copyright enforcement victims.