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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
But the time to create a novel, a videogame, or a news story is not infinitely reproducible, either. So when you are pirsting one of those things, you are actively reaping the benefits of someone's time for free, like going to a concert without a ticket
There's a difference between the performer's time to create not being infinitely reproducible, and an user's time to use the product being or not infinitely reproducible. Whether I'm pirating or buying a TV show, the actors were already compensated for their time and use for the show; my payment for buying actually goes to the corporate fat: licensors, distributors, etc.
Whereas when pay a ticket into a live concert, I'm actually paying for something to be made.
And where do you think that money comes from...?
It just magically appears /s Its disingenuous to try and justify piracy on the basis that the performers have already been paid. I don't agree with studios either of course, customers are being scammed