• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Pirating is not and never has been stealing. You do not deprive anyone of anything when you make a copy of something.

    Copyright is a dumb as shit system of artificial scarcity and always has been.

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      7 hours ago

      Its kinda true. I like to think of gog and gog-games. One is a storefront. One is a clean ui with all the games downloadable for free.

      I think many would still use the free one vs paid. Myself, there’s something about owning it.

      I pirated doom eternal back in the day. I was enjoying it so much I just bought it instead. 🤷

      I get what you’re saying with “copying” vs “stealing”, which is true. But if you could clone your friends car for free you don’t need to buy a car and the business loses a sale.

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        6 hours ago

        The business loses a sale of what though? A copy they never created or had possession of in the first place?

        If I go home and build a PC, can Dell claim that I deprived them of a sale of a copy of one of their computers?