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mumble
16y ago
With software and music media etc. you don't buy the physical good (the CD, DVD etc. which you seem to be talking about) but the right to use it, listen to it etc. One could argue though that this mode of thinking is inherently broken becau
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mumble
16y ago
Rebuttal: Piracy is theft because pirates violate the conditions under which artists/developers made their work available to the public. If they don't like those conditions, they shouldn't be using it but create their own stuff. (Please not
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mumble
16y ago
Justification: Piracy is not theft because most of the profits doesn't go to the creator/artist/developer but to corporate management/share holders who cannibalize their zoo of creator/artist/developer they keep in the backyard. Only very f