Submitted â¨â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago⊠by â¨git@lemmy.zip⊠to â¨technology@lemmy.zipâŠ
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/29947730
Many of these piracy analogies are kinda weird. IMO the best analogy to pirating a movie is watching a football match from behind the fence. The stadium company isnât getting your ticket money, but youâre not even the kind of person who would pay for that ticket anyway, so did anyone really lose anything? When watching the match from outside the fence, youâre not taking any seats, or bothering the paying customers. Whereâs the harm in that?
I think itâs a false assumption that these people wouldnât be paying anyway. Thatâs just a narrative spread as a fact. Itâs undeniable that film/game studios are losing money due to piracy. Some number of the people who pirate would be paying for it if piracy wasnât an option.
The technicality argument always rubbed me the wrong way. Like the guys who are into jailbait and say they arenât pedophiles because pedophilia is for under ten year olds and they want to fuck teenagers. Brother you still want to fuck underage folks.
Same generally with piracy. Saying itâs not theft because thereâs no physical deprivation of goods just sounds deluded. Itâs still taking stuff without paying for it. Who are you trying to fool? Are you hoping someone is gonna read that nonsense and say, âOh shit hes right guess we gotta get rid of copyright law nowâ? And would you want them to in the day and age of AI stealing everything?
Iâm not even really trying to scold folks who pirate, I do it too, I just donât bother to grandstand about it. BFD Iâm pirating 30 year old video games. Yâall think if I bought a 200 dollar used one on Ebay the original studio sees a dime of it? Câmon now.
in many places theft is defined as depriving the rightful owner of an object
so no, piracy isnât theft, itâs piracy, thatâs why they made a new crime for it
Chill man! Itâs just for fun
No worries. In new vehicles, the paperwork says you have a license to use the Software that drives the car rather than ownership.
You do own the physical parts though for now.
You donât really, or IDK how else those subscriptions work where you pay monthly to use the seat heating
It is funny you say that since I just pirated a Toyota
Jesus_666@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Piracy isnât piracy. Piracy is copyright infringement. Real piracy involves boats.
So if you want to be a proper pirate, run your BitTorrent client on a boat.