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Don't let the corporations tell you otherwise (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The concept you bring up applied before the digital world took off as well.

For those of us who were around when the whole "YoU WoULdN't StEaL a CaR!" argument against piracy was being made, it was a false equivalency when it came to ownership back then too.

Copying a song off the radio onto a tape cassette was not the same as breaking into a car, hot-wiring it, and driving off in it. Someone copying a song from the radio onto a cassette was not preventing others from listening to it.

Yes. This is not about theft. It's about intellectual property rights and royalties via cloning a non-physical creation. They just masquerade it as theft because it helps their argument. It's disingenuous of them.

[โ€“] Kecessa 1 points 10 months ago

Then wage theft isn't theft because you never were in possession of the money so it wasn't stolen from you.