If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing - eviltoast
Jordan Kendrick :popos: (@jordan_kendrick@fosstodon.org)
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@Ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Same with copyright theft

    Is this when you steal someone’s copyright and collect licensing fees posing as the legitimate copyright holder?

    They didn’t steal from you directly

    Or indirectly.

    still caused harm.

    Maybe, maybe not. But no theft occurred.

    • FeminalPanda@lemmings.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I meant infringe on the copyright. I don’t think what Disney and some others are doing is right with extending it but I do think the person that created the things should have some legal protection from it being copied for a bit.

      • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Copyright infringement isn’t theft, that’s the main point. It’s breaking a rule that the government created giving people a temporary (now extremely long term, but temporary) right to control the spread of ideas. Whether or not you approve of that law is beside the point. The point being, theft is as old as the ten commandments, if not older. Copyright is a new thing that’s only a few centuries old.