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[–] moody@lemmings.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

After all what is a digital file if not a bunch of writing that instructs the computer to draw pixels on your screen.

A digital file is just a number, potentially a very big number, but that's all it is.

Oh come on. What's next? "I didn't murder anyone, I just rearranged some atoms. We're all just really big collections of atoms after all." If you remove enough semantic layers, you can make anything sound benign.

I'm not anti-piracy, I just think these lines of argumentation are so flimsy as to be entirely worthless for the cause.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, that's also like, all information

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

I think that's the point.