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.

  • @[email protected]English
    -4•11 months ago

    If no one thinks that, why are you saying it right now?

    …huh?

    Actual theft of intellectual property would involve somehow tricking the world into thinking you hold the copyright to something that someone else owns.

    …no? What are you talking about? All it involves is illegally copying someone else’s work.