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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] 5 points 11 months ago (13 children)

But the time to create a novel, a videogame, or a news story is not infinitely reproducible, either. So when you are pirsting one of those things, you are actively reaping the benefits of someone's time for free, like going to a concert without a ticket

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (10 children)

There's a difference between the performer's time to create not being infinitely reproducible, and an user's time to use the product being or not infinitely reproducible. Whether I'm pirating or buying a TV show, the actors were already compensated for their time and use for the show; my payment for buying actually goes to the corporate fat: licensors, distributors, etc.

Whereas when pay a ticket into a live concert, I'm actually paying for something to be made.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Whether I'm pirating or buying a TV show, the actors were already compensated for their time

And where do you think that money comes from...?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From the investors who are paying the cheques of course. They are corporations, they can afford to spend some coins on [checks notes] living wages.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly it. Investors. They are not donations. They expect a return on their investments.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And such "return" comes after the work, not before. So there's no reason to condition the wages to do the work, on the potential that the work might be sold or not and to what amount of people. Now that would be air-quotes "stealing"!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And such "return" comes after the work

And once again, where do you suppose it comes from?

So there's no reason to condition the wages to do the work, on the potential that the work might be sold or not and to what amount of people.

How does one "condition wages"?

Is your argument simply that theft is a-ok 👌 when the person you're stealing from is wealthy?

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