I mean, it’s not
It’s piracy, a different crime
A crime I love committing babyyyyyyyyyy
“Property is theft!” ~ EA
God damn right!
…I mean… PIRACY IS WRONG AND IMORRAL!
stealing from billionaires is bad! How are they supposed to afford their giant mansions and gold Hummers if we pirate things?!
If I steal your bicycle
you have to take the bus,
but if I just copy it
there’s one for each of us!im a bicycle store owner and this is so true
I like to think this implies that people are coming into your store and cloning the bicycles
You wouldn’t download a bicycle would you?
If I steal food from the store, I’m both robbing the store, and a community that would have paid good money for that food.
If I go to the store and magically have the items on the shelves be duplicated into my cart, and I don’t have to pay for them. That is not a crime that is a miracle
It’s the theft of profit they don’t like, they don’t care if you watch it, just that you give them money for the opportunity to watch.
No, they still don’t like it when I buy a copy of a video game and then pirate it as well
yup. anti-piracy is about control, not profits. this is trivial to deduce from the simple fact that no one ever measures a drm solution’s performance in total sales recovered, they only ever whine about hypothetical lost ones, which is the corporate equivalent of sideways for attention, long way for effect
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You aren’t stealing from the person you’re getting it from, you’re stealing from the person who created it
Artists have rights over their work, and no amount of whataboutisms will change that.
