• Chozo@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Right, but in this instance you’re not damaging the government through these actions. You’re damaging private entities. Civil vs criminal.

    EDIT: Although, piracy often crosses both civil and criminal statutes in many cases, because copyright law is weird like that.

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      11 months ago

      Agreed, and to me the solution is not “let’s hope the companies play nice”, but rather to bring in anti-monopoly regulations, like Canada’s Bill C-56.

      We need to force companies to add interoperability, transparency and fairness imho. Like the ongoing fight to force Apple to allow competing browsers in iOS. Or alternate app stores for Android and iOS.