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Don't let the corporations tell you otherwise (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (52 children)

Buying something is owning. That has never changed.

You don't purchase digital goods. You buy a license to use them, under the conditions you agreed to. Piracy explicitly breaks those conditions 99.9% of the time.

So no, it isn't stealing. It's just plainly illegal. And it hurts everyone from the original artist to the multi-billion dollar company that distributes it. Whether you think that is immoral or not is up to you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Yes, that is the small text they use to justify it, but that's not how they advertise it. When Amazon Prime wants me to pay for a movie it doesn't say "License it now!" It says "Buy it now!"

If you go digging into the EULA you'll see it being called a license, but no effort is made to actually make that clear to the customer.

Furthermore, being technically legal doesn't make it acceptable. If someone opened a bookstore, and put some treatment on all their books that caused them to suddenly disintegrate after a year, it doesn't matter if they have on all their receipts that "books are not guaranteed to last longer than a year" or that they "aren't doing anything illegal". It's still a bullshit business practice that shouldn't be tolerated.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, scams exist. I never claimed that things like your hypothetical situation would be moral, or should be tolerated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yet you think the shit corpos are doing isnt just scamming you out of your money?

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