Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" - eviltoast

The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • Katana314@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No - they CAN’T do work for hire. Are you listening?

    “Hi. I do really cool photos. Please hire me to take one, and after you’ve paid me, you can see it.”

    According to you, that’s a comprehensive resume and advertisement for a photographer, absent of a single graphic. According to you, a client could come to a consult about buying a photo, sneak their phone camera up to the print, and say “Never mind about payment! I just copied it. You can keep the print! So long, loser.”

    You’re not even trying to imagine the impossible hurdles such a craft would have trying to earn enough to eat food every day, much less have a roof over their head. If you have nothing substantive to add, everyone on this site should be done with you.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      No - they CAN’T do work for hire. Are you listening?

      Your inability to imagine anything other than the status quo is really depressing.