People who are actually right never have to say “period” at the end. Just FYI.
Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoPiracy is theft. Period.
The only remaining question is if one requires an argument to steal in this context. I am fine with this theft and require no justification to sleep well.
“Commander Lock : Dammit, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe.
Morpheus : My beliefs do not require them to.”
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I don’t know. I like the clarity of your view, but the world theft has implicit the idea that you having it makes someone else not have it.
Theft is wrong even by poor people, because what you steal might reduce availability to other poor people. But piracy is theft lite, in the sense that when people without disposable income do it, nobody loses anything.
asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Theft is wrong even by poor people
All I have to say about that is, if you see a poor person steal food, no you didn’t
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Um… what exactly is being stolen?
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Their sense of pride and accomplishment?
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
The fruits of artistic labour.
Ask any artist if they’d rather their work not be enjoyed at all, or enjoyed for free.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Typically it’s the fruits of distributing someone else’s artistic labor that are
stolennot paid. The artists are under contract with the producers/distributors, so they get paid regardless (if we’re talking RIAA/MPAA/record labels/movie studios).Making a copy of something isn’t the same as stealing it. Making a copy of something and trying to pass it off as your own work is fraud, but that’s outside the scope of digital piracy. “Theft” requires that the stolen item is no longer in the possession of the original owner.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Here you go:
Neal Gaiman on copyright piracy and the web.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s exactly it. That was my point: It’s better to be enjoyed for free than not at all.
Clent@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The only industry whose profits need to be guaranteed by laws.
doodledup@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No. Almost all industries nowadays rely on IP. Nobody is manufacturing in Europe or US anymore. The most lucrative business of scale rely on software, logistics and other IP.
Most people who do piracy don’t understand how their job also depends on IP in one way or the other. Their idealostic world view is incoherent. If you do privacy at least own up to it. You’re copying someone else’s work and there is no moral argument to do that in a non-socialist world.