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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A more honest analogy for the situation was that there are very few incidents of circuses doing that and now people demand it's morally justified to get free entrance to every circus, concert, fair, museum, ....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" though, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not just a few circusses. Every major circus company seems to consistently pull this trick.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But people aren't just sharing media that is affected. They pirate everything, even when there are ways to buy and own it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

But people aren’t just sharing media that is affected. They pirate everything, even when there are ways to buy and own it.

"Some people speed on roads, so all roads are bad."

This conversation is about media you can't buy and own.