If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing - eviltoast

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

  • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    In fairness, it was never legal to make thousands of copies of that VHS tape and hand them out en masse. Which is how you’re getting it when you download it, from someone doing exactly that.