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If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing (fosstodon.org)

submitted 9 months ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

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[-] Froyn@kbin.social 142 points 9 months ago

Things got weird when we went digital.

It's perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a tape off the radio. Yet it's illegal to download a better copy?
It's perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a VHS tape off the TV. Yet it's illegal to download a better copy?

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 5 points 9 months ago

In fairness, it was never legal to make thousands of copies of that VHS tape and hand them out en masse. Which is how you're getting it when you download it, from someone doing exactly that.

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