Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century.

• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Typically it’s the fruits of distributing someone else’s artistic labor that are stolen not 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.

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ask any artist if they’d rather their work not be enjoyed at all, or enjoyed for free.

  Here you go:

  Neal Gaiman on copyright piracy and the web.

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  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s exactly it. That was my point: It’s better to be enjoyed for free than not at all.

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• Clent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only industry whose profits need to be guaranteed by laws.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There was a time when the same could be said about slavery. People’s lives depended on slavery and they couldn’t imagine an economy without it and yet here we are.

      No one should own a person and no one should own an idea.

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    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re copying someone else’s work

      That’s how culture works and has worked since humans have been human, you damn lunatic.

      Copying and retelling and sharing each other’s stories and works is what makes us human and differentiates us from other animals, you monstrously ignorant tool.

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      • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re conpletely oblivious to modern day society. It’s basic economics. It’s not difficult to understand that this idealized reality doesn’t exist, merely because every individual depends on it.

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