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If purchasing isn't owning piracy isn't stealing.
by gustavus 3y ago
If purchasing isn't owning piracy isn't stealing.
- robertlagrant 3y agoExactly. It's like if I take a rental car for a joyride. That shouldn't be illegal.
- cma 3y agoIsn't it a replica of the rental car in the analogy?
- CatWChainsaw 3y agorobertlagrant wouldn't download a car!
- robertlagrant 3y agoExactly! If I could, then car improvements would cease to exist.
- Arialonomus 3y agoYour analogy undermines the point you seem to be making, given that renting is, by definition, not purchasing.
- eddd-ddde 3y agoMore so you look at a rental car from afar, and using your own mediums make your own exact copy, which you then use for a ride.
- dylan604 3y agoExcept, you incur quite an expense making your own exact copy whereas copying some bits costs you such a low number that it approaches $0
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- corint 3y agoIn the UK there's a law covering this specific case. Theft is deigned "taking with the intent to permanently deprive", so joyriders were defending their actions by returning the vehicle after just this. Therefore, there's now an offence for this: Taking Without Consent: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/theft-act-offences https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/theft-act-offences
- autoexec 3y agoPiracy isn't stealing anyway. It's just copyright infringement. DRM and other consumer hostile practices are just more reasons to add to the growing pile of reasons why copyright infringement might not be unethical no matter what the legality is.