geese_feces [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"pluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1148arrow-down1external-link"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"pluralistic.netgeese_feces [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareplinky [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up69·1 year agoPiracy wouldn’t be stealing even if buying was owning. Stealing is a crime in a moral dimension cause someone loses something
minus-squarejoaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·1 year agoyes but you’re stealing from the alternate universe where a company would have earned money for the product you pirated, you sicko do you have no empathy for hypothetical stockholders from another dimension?
minus-squareplinky [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoGoing through the shop and not buying all the stuff i see: shop owner - that would be 1 million in unrealized profit, thank you very much
minus-squarebuckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoPiracy is never stealing and also stealing from corpos is not immoral anyway
Piracy wouldn’t be stealing even if buying was owning. Stealing is a crime in a moral dimension cause someone loses something
yes but you’re stealing from the alternate universe where a company would have earned money for the product you pirated, you sicko
do you have no empathy for hypothetical stockholders from another dimension?
Going through the shop and not buying all the stuff i see: shop owner - that would be 1 million in unrealized profit, thank you very much
Piracy is never stealing and also stealing from corpos is not immoral anyway