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Why people Pirate? (thelemmy.club)
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How to prevent pirating?

https://www.ign.com/articles/battlefield-6-player-with-over-400-hours-gets-full-refund-from-steam-after-key-modes-were-removed

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[–] 15 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Piracy isn't stealing, period.

It was totally ok to pirate movies before this practice ever took place. Information had always wanted to be free.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I made the same comment 5h ago https://beehaw.org/comment/6121936 Dafuq brah

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    It’s definitely stealing. I just happen to consider it morally acceptable stealing from these fuckwits.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Stealing means taking something from someone that won't have that thing anymore.

    Piracy is just duplicating. No stealing involved.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    Steal is like taking away a cupcake from your bakery.

    Piracy is like analyzing the cupcake and thus revealing its recipe and I share it to everyone. (You wouldn’t lose your baked cupcakes but everyone makes clones out of them from the recipe.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    If you want to make up your own definition for stealing, then sure.

    If you want to live in reality, stealing means taking something that isn’t yours. Has nothing to do with physical items. Data can be stolen, trade secrets can be stolen, valour can be stolen, identities can be stolen.

    None of these require physically removing an item from someone else. They are about taking/accessing things without permission.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Would you classify making clones/copies out of a thing and sharing them stealing?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    If it’s something I am not allowed to have, then yeah. I would.

    If you hack into my computer and copy all my files you have 100% stolen my data. It would be insane to think otherwise.

    The entire premise is permission.

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