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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I want the stuff, the stuff is there. I take it. The stuff is still there, nothing was lost, nothing was stolen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me at the grocery store

Except the second half

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same. And for some reason I can't seem to lose weight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh I was joking about theft lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You’re not stealing stuff, you’re stealing revenue. The missing revenue is what they care about. But they have plenty of that already, so they can get bent

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stealing revenue it's hypothetical, because it supposes that you were going to pay for the product if it wasn't available pirated. And that is far from being certain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

That is very true, but that doesn’t stop them from going after piracy to protect the revenue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Not really, it's just free publicity.

Unless their product is shit, of course, and no one would pay for it after trying or recommend it to others... in which case, fuck them, they deserve it for attempting to sell shit.