They keep saying piracy is theft to try to sucker people into paying for shit :che-laugh:
This is going to make a bunch of 17th-century swashbucklers very confused
The true theft is the institution of property, which creates artificial scarcity for things which are effectively infinite in supply. It is nothing less than the enclosure of the commons. Exclusive right of access to that which could be had by all.
Meanwhile everyone just accepts the term "Piracy" to describe copying files.
Seriously, copyright holders shot themselves in the foot when they came up with the term.
Lmao ikr? They might as have called us software ninjas or something.
If I steal your bicycle, you'll have to take the bus /
But if I only copy it, there's one for each of us!
fun fact, the animator who made that cartoon is a TERF (e: not a zionist, I misinterpreted her cartoon, but apparently she rejects zionism)
it's a good cartoon, I just thought it kinda funny and weird
I know :deeper-sadness:
Quite a pity, because I really liked a lot of its work. I say its because it says that gender is based on reproductive organs, which it had removed for medical reasons.
I bought the bits from the hard drive store. I'll flip them on and off as my fancy inspires.
It is a violation of my free speech to be prohibited from saying very specific and tremendously large numbers.
When DVD encoding was first broken by pioneering pirates, the 'free speech' argument was a big deal.
I recall shirts were printed with the big number that let you decode and rip movies off DVDs, they attempted to censor the number everywhere and all sorts were getting shut down for copyright reasons.
Broke: Piracy is bad and hurts people
Woke: Piracy doesn't hurt anyone
Bespoke: Piracy hurts people, so use it to hurt the corporations who deserve it
indie dev
petit bourgeois small business owner tbh. i'm not gonna cry if someone pirates stardew valley which has sold 10 million copies. also study after study has shown that piracy of indie games leads to wider exposure and many people who pirate stuff to try it out eventually go on to buy it. Radiohead released their 2007 album "In Rainbows" as a "pay what you want" (so you could pay zero, if you wanted to) and they still made plenty of money off of it. I'm not convinced piracy hurts the "indie" small business owner that much. Public libraries have never hurt fiction authors' sales. How many people have borrowed a good book from the library and then gone on to buy their own copy? Happens all the time.
I mean yeah companies that call themselves indie cuz they have less than 50 employees are petite bourg, but if we’re talking like a garage band or some dude making a pixel art platformer in his basement, those guys are more like Lumpen Prole hustlers.
yeah that's a good point, i'd agree with that distinction
This argument has always had holes in it. It’s not about who possess the original copy, it’s that whoever made the original copy isn’t being compensated for the work of creating it when someone uses a copy of it. You’re still getting utility out of the copy you have, so the argument is you owe something to the person who’s labor generated the original that the copy was made from.
Except in a majority of cases that person is a wage- worker whose labor has already been paid for
I think it depends on the circumstances. A couple years ago, I drew a picture of my friend's fursona, and they tipped me the equivalent of about $30 so I could afford groceries. I shared it among friends, but otherwise kept it private. Someone else saved the picture, cropped out my signature, and then tried to use it as a cover to sell their self-published (fetish) ebook for $30, and passing it off as their own work.
Honestly, I was more upset about the fact that they were portraying my friend's character as a male crossdresser, when they're actually transfem and had recently come out as such when I drew the image for them (which was a celebration of that fact). So, like, I'm all for piracy, but I think the line really should be drawn at taking someone else's personal pictures and trying to profit off them by claiming them as your own.
Plus if they wanted a book cover, I would have been up for drawing something for them if they tipped me so I could pay for food/contribute to that month's rent :yea:
Well if piracy is theft then go ahead and lock me up and throw away the key (I will pirate another)
So in other words it's not theft; among other things because what you describes assumes the person copying the data would have bought a copy of said data had it not been available easily and for free. In the vast vast majority of cases, this is not true.
There's a metric fuckton of games, tv shows, movies, etc. I would absolutely never have bought had they not been available for free.
You wouldn't steal a car!
And you wouldn't have the same car as someone else even if that in no way hindered their use of their car!
