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“Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning”
by toastal 3y ago
“Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning”
- unmole 3y ago[flagged]
- DharmaPolice 3y agoWhy do you think you can't own electricity? And taking credit for something you didn't do may or may not be some form of misrepresentation/fraud, but I doubt many jurisdictions would consider it literal theft.
- unmole 3y agoThere are no jurisdictions that consider copyright infringement literal theft either. But here we are.
- concordDance 3y agoI trust you'll be able to figure out how those situations are different with a minutes thought.
- unmole 3y agoI trust if you spend a few more minutes, you will be able to figure out the idiocy of the original argument.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoYou wouldn’t download a car.
- nebula8804 3y agoWith todays prices, everyone would if they could.
- concordDance 3y agoThe idiocy of the original is irrelevant to the merits of your post.
- unmole 3y agoMy comment was absurd because it was itintended to show the absurdity of the original comment. It makes no sense otherwise.
- hhjinks 3y agoYou do own the power you purchase. You just decide to give it away to our collective pool of entropy right away. You could store it in a battery instead if you wanted.
- Nitrolo 3y agoI know you're joking, but at least in Germany you couldn't _steal_ electricity because electricity is not a _thing_ (according to German law)[0]. They fixed that well over a century ago by just making electricity theft itself a specific crime though. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entziehung_elektrischer_Energie https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entziehung_elektrischer_Energi...
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