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Copyright violation is not theft. Your effort to create something that can be effortlessly copied conveys to you no property. Society deems it beneficial to gra
by galangalalgol 3mo ago
Copyright violation is not theft. Your effort to create something that can be effortlessly copied conveys to you no property. Society deems it beneficial to grant a time limited monopoly on copying it to spur innovation.
- brookst 3mo agoYou wouldn’t steal a car!
- skeledrew 3mo agoStealing a car - or anything tangible - means... the owner is very literally deprived of the benefits of owning said car/thing. Can't really say the same for a copied pattern of bits.
- fc417fc802 3mo agoBut I would download one.