Digital piracy had never been stealing, and framing it as such is a huge marketing success of IP holders. Stealing requires removal of property. Piracy duplicates. It is intellectual property violation, which is distinct from stealing.
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Specifically “copyright infringement”; as in you infringed on the right of the owner to dictate how and when their copy is duplicated.
It sounds necessary but “I’m the only one allowed my idea” is such a problematic concept, especially in the Information Age, it’s amazing how it’s used for some of the most egregiously greedy things.
The penalties should honestly be almost nothing.
Copywrite like patents originally was a short period to give the creator time to capitalize on their work. It was meant to drive innovation but not stifle it with monopolization.
Then it was slowly changed from that to generational ownership and monopoly. Life plus 70 years is fucking stupid.
Thanks Disney!
Copyright.
And for training AI copyright suddenly does not matter? It's them who created copyright laws and now it's them who made them pointless in their greed.
- Steal her look
- Stole his idea
- Stealing a glance
- Stealing through the night
- Steal a moment
"Stealing" has never meant exclusively "taking someone's property".
The amount of mental gymnastics people will do to justify to themselves something that is so incredibly minor and also wrong. Do you hold yourselves to such high standards that the English language must change before admitting you did something a bit naughty?
So I love this reply because it's emblematic of missing the point. I am not defending piracy with my original statement, at all. This is your own conclusion. Piracy is still (depending on the country) illegal and subject to punishment and enforcement. If you want to engage or not is entirely up to you, I'm not justifying anything. I am clarifying an important point. Where it matters is in the application of penalties and damages for the aggrieved.
This is just a slightly more complicated version of "if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" or am I missing something?
gotta start reverse engineering modern consoles to make emulators
fuck the AAA gaming industry!
I just pirate everything, thats easier. I even pirate things i do have access to lol
I need someone to explain this logical leap to me either in this incarnation or the more general one. It has never been clear to me how the one follows from the other.
Who cares about games