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In Jewish law there is a paradigm called "this one is benefitting and this one is not losing". Essentially, the idea is that if you're enjoying something belong
by hackathonguy 5y ago
In Jewish law there is a paradigm called "this one is benefitting and this one is not losing". Essentially, the idea is that if you're enjoying something belonging to someone else, that doesn't constitute stealing as long as they don't stand to lose anything owing to your usage.
This applies to lamplight, and interestingly, can be applied to piracy as well: if you can honestly say you wouldn't have purchased the movie/software/music anyway, downloading it is not stealing.
As others have mentioned in the comments, this idea doesn't work for wifi: performance is inversely correlated with connected devices, making using your neighbor's wifi a case of "this one is benefitting and this one is losing".
- onethought 5y agoBut intellectual property isn’t a thing then.
- akomtu 5y agoUsing one metaphor, IP is not a thing, it's a fire: by its nature, when it creates more fire, the original fire does not diminish.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoI'm fine with that outcome.
- onethought 5y agoMe too, but completely unwinds the software economic model. Licenses are meaningless, as would more broadly copyright.
- Dylan16807 5y agoA lot less than 'completely'. A big chunk of software is commissioned, and another big chunk of software is open source.
- onethought 5y ago… a tiny chunk (by value). Commissioned software Is a fraction of product/services protected by IP law. Open source doesn’t really have an effective business model (and it doesn’t need one!)
- Dylan16807 5y agoSo much software is in-house, and that's only part of commissioned software, are you sure it's a tiny chunk?
- onethought 5y agoIn house Software still rely on ip law. Try stealing Facebook’s source code and see what happens.
- akomtu 5y agoNot giving back when you can is greed, not theft. But these days we encourage greed, so copyright owners had to frame greed as thef to make it punishable.
- shukantpal 5y agoThat's not the definition of greed.