Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • Rough_N_Ready@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Piracy was never stealing. It’s copyright infringement, but that’s not the same as stealing at all. People saying it’s stealing have always been wrong.

    • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      One of the great modern scams, was to convince society that unauthorized copying of data is somehow equivalent to taking away a physical object.

      • Coasting0942@reddthat.comEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Jesus didn’t ask for permission to copy bread and fish. It’s a clear moral precedent that if you can copy you should.

        What would the Jesus do?

        Checkmate Atheists!

  • Blue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Pirated valheim, played 20 hours, bought the game.

    Pirated baldurs gate 3 on early access, bought the game with only act 1, that’s how good it is.

    Pirated Valhalla, played 5 hours, uninstalled that trash forever.

    Started pirating streaming services when they told me that I can’t watch shit anymore because streaming service b and c took the shows, and now I have to pay two different streaming services if I want to keep watching.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      It’s probably worth pirating games just to test play them before buying the good ones for online play

      • Huschke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        It’s also great to check if my aging pc is even capable of running it somewhat smoothly.

          • Huschke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            11 months ago

            True, which again brings us back to “piracy is a service problem” which imho it totally is. I never pirate steam games.

  • greedytacothief@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I think piracy is copyright infringement. But like who cares if some big corpos get infringed upon by some dudes.

    • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I think a compromise on copyright could be a good middle ground in future. In the same way that I’m happy to wait for a game to go on sale before I buy and play it, I’d be happy to wait until a movie or series enters the public domain so I can consume it without paying. Obviously not for hundreds of years, or 56 years. But if Netflix/HBO etc shows and movies became free to watch after 6-7 years, most piracy traffic could be easily captured by legal platforms that are more convenient and accessible to more viewers. I struggle to see how it would not further relegate piracy to a niche activity done by very few, or be bad for the content producers in any significant way