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PirateBay for images is back! Not complaining, I love using the PirateBay to steal. I also don't makeup reasons I do it. It's for theft, because getting someth

PirateBay for images is back! Not complaining, I love using the PirateBay to steal. I also don't makeup reasons I do it. It's for theft, because getting something of value for free feels good.

lolc 6y ago
You think that downloading an image is stealing?
- aaron695 6y ago
  > You think that downloading an image is stealing? Do you really expect me to believe your are an archivist using a Google Image interface to get images to then wait the ~70 years of copyright to use them? These, "Piratebay has Linux torrents", or "a hash isn't copyright" arguments don't hold up in a court and don't hold up with mates at the bar. We are an abstract society, it's why we no longer live like animals. We are right now having to decide what things like Facebook and Twitter really are, beyond the technical they are internet companies. This add-on is great, and should not be illegal in any free society, but forcing Google to change was a different story.
  - lolc 6y ago
    > Do you really expect me to believe your are an archivist using a Google Image interface to get images to then wait the ~70 years of copyright to use them? I'm not claiming to be. > These, "Piratebay has Linux torrents", or "a hash isn't copyright" arguments don't hold up in a court and don't hold up with mates at the bar. I don't know people who say any of that. > We are an abstract society, it's why we no longer live like animals. We are right now having to decide what things like Facebook and Twitter really are, beyond the technical they are internet companies. You speak in riddles. > This add-on is great, and should not be illegal in any free society, but forcing Google to change was a different story. So what's the story?
rcoveson 6y ago
> It's for theft, because getting something of value for free feels good. I love this too. I steal the mountain air when I hit the trails, I steal the sounds of nearby conversations, and I steal the memories of songs I've heard. Sometimes a friend will sing me something, and I steal that too. I play my music loud sometimes, and I hope those around me steal it. I've stolen things at my job from my coworkers, little ideas that belong to my company. They'll breed and have child ideas, stolen children, which I will make available for theft by others down the road. I even stole your comment; it had a little value, in its way. I won't pay you for it, even if you ask. In fact, if you ever write something and seal it away behind copyright, I can't promise I won't read it at a library in the future; you wouldn't see a dime. Finally: If anybody ever asks me for something I know, or something I am capable of reciting--be it music, poetry, fiction, whatever--I will help them steal it by repeating it. I will not turn them away out of some unnatural commitment to the idea that all valuable information has an owner who must "get theirs" in advance of any transfer.

PirateBay for images is back! Not complaining, I love using the PirateBay to steal. I also don't makeup reasons I do it. It's for theft, because getting something of value for free feels good.

lolc 6y ago

You think that downloading an image is stealing?

aaron695 6y ago
> You think that downloading an image is stealing? Do you really expect me to believe your are an archivist using a Google Image interface to get images to then wait the ~70 years of copyright to use them? These, "Piratebay has Linux torrents", or "a hash isn't copyright" arguments don't hold up in a court and don't hold up with mates at the bar. We are an abstract society, it's why we no longer live like animals. We are right now having to decide what things like Facebook and Twitter really are, beyond the technical they are internet companies. This add-on is great, and should not be illegal in any free society, but forcing Google to change was a different story.
- lolc 6y ago
  > Do you really expect me to believe your are an archivist using a Google Image interface to get images to then wait the ~70 years of copyright to use them? I'm not claiming to be. > These, "Piratebay has Linux torrents", or "a hash isn't copyright" arguments don't hold up in a court and don't hold up with mates at the bar. I don't know people who say any of that. > We are an abstract society, it's why we no longer live like animals. We are right now having to decide what things like Facebook and Twitter really are, beyond the technical they are internet companies. You speak in riddles. > This add-on is great, and should not be illegal in any free society, but forcing Google to change was a different story. So what's the story?

rcoveson 6y ago

> It's for theft, because getting something of value for free feels good. I love this too. I steal the mountain air when I hit the trails, I steal the sounds of nearby conversations, and I steal the memories of songs I've heard. Sometimes a friend will sing me something, and I steal that too. I play my music loud sometimes, and I hope those around me steal it. I've stolen things at my job from my coworkers, little ideas that belong to my company. They'll breed and have child ideas, stolen children, which I will make available for theft by others down the road. I even stole your comment; it had a little value, in its way. I won't pay you for it, even if you ask. In fact, if you ever write something and seal it away behind copyright, I can't promise I won't read it at a library in the future; you wouldn't see a dime. Finally: If anybody ever asks me for something I know, or something I am capable of reciting--be it music, poetry, fiction, whatever--I will help them steal it by repeating it. I will not turn them away out of some unnatural commitment to the idea that all valuable information has an owner who must "get theirs" in advance of any transfer.