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0 pointsimglorp8mo ago0 comments

Plus the idea that if you pay someone to "purchase" and "own" (their terms!!) content, then it's yours forever. Unless, of course, they renegotiate something upstream and subsequently remove the content from your "library" or your device. Or perhaps they lock you out of those things altogether. This means it wasn't ownership, it was subscription.

So as they say, “if buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.”

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2023-12-08...

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bsimpson8mo ago

Stealing is when you take something from him, and he no longer has the thing you took.

Piracy is when you see something for free that everyone else paid money for. You watching doesn't prevent anyone else from watching.

Piracy isn't stealing: piracy only deals in intangibles. Stealing is for finite goods.

There's a whole "how do we pay to make stuff if people can watch for free" problem around piracy, but it's fundamentally a different thing than stealing.

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