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"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"(pluralistic.net)

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plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Piracy wouldn’t be stealing even if buying was owning. Stealing is a crime in a moral dimension cause someone loses something

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joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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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?

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plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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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

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buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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Piracy is never stealing and also stealing from corpos is not immoral anyway

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ksynwa_from_lemmygrad [he/him, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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Plot twist: piracy is never stealing

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JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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piracy is sometimes stealing if you’re on a boat.

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theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]@hexbear.net
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Yeah but then it’s cool

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StellarTabi [none/use name]@hexbear.net
43 points

Remember to seed.

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darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
22 points

Farmers be like:

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TeddyKila [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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it’s incredible to me that trying to undo the damage done by these ghouls is a felony (as Cory says) in here. I don’t want to be that person, but how is this sustainable? it seems like such a massive footgun for the entire functioning “western” world that I’m actually feeling some communist optimism.

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mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.net
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But stealing from corporations is still cool

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