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Yeah stealing stuff is a pretty good way to keep your spending down.
by noelsusman 4y ago
Yeah stealing stuff is a pretty good way to keep your spending down.
- sneak 4y agoCopying data isn't stealing. But, then, you already knew that.
- Jerrrry 4y agodepriving one of potential profits is certainly a form of theft.
- mmastrac 4y agoYou're describing competition
- ls15 4y agoOr taxes
- jerojero 4y agoPotential profit? If the price is not low enough to encourage this person to buy the product then you have a different problem. Digital goods manufacturers can't simply price their goods without considering the ease of access that people have to these. Well, in reality, they do consider it. It is why PC games for example tend to be much cheaper and go on sale much more often than console games. It hasn't really stopped the PC gaming market from growing every year though. Piracy is a pricing problem, not a theft problem. Just look at streaming services. Also, you might be thinking of immediate profits but most of these businesses rely on much longer lifecycles. A child might pirate game 1 when they are 13 and then when they are 17 and have their first job they might buy game 2 on a sale (from the same companyl and when they are adults will keep buying the newly released games because they have been converted. This is the case for many. Don't be silly and reduce complex issues to simple phrases.
- krageon 4y agoIf you're not going to buy (or rent as it would be), there are no potential profits. This is an angle corporations use to subvert your thinking into the idea that you would have given them money in the first place.
- account42 4y agoThen please send me $1000000 because since you could potentially do it then depriving me of that money is theft.
- monkey_monkey 4y agoIt really is a form of theft, and we all know you know that even if you've decided that those rules don't apply to you.
- MobileVet 4y agoThat is some interesting mental gymnastics…
- dandellion 4y agoIf we discovered a free and unlimited source of energy would people argue we shouldn't use it because it's stealing? I see more mental gymnastics in justifying the old payment models when we've invented an almost free and unlimited way to distribute media, than in telling people to torrent stuff.
- jjnoakes 4y agoThis seems like a straw man to me. If we discovered a free and unlimited source of entertainment then we wouldn't need to charge for that either...
- vineyardmike 4y agoGosh I wish media was free to create like this power source of yours. Actors and camera crew and makeup and the set designers all need to get paid for their work somehow. Distribution is free, but because production is not, we have to pay at consumption time.
- andybak 4y agoThe point is that the word "stealing" has been extended to mean something it never used to mean. This lexical shift was intentional and used to "borrow" some of the moral weight from the traditional definition for something most people feel is only borderline immoral. So - an honest discussion of copyright infringment should avoid distorted, emotive language such as "steal".