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.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 years ago

      No because the entire metaphor is built on the concept of prostitution

      • Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        In this analogy you are stealing time and labour, if we’re being weird. Not being weird, thats rape, please get a better comparison, one that isn’t a crime against every living being please. Im not sure how this translates to copyright

        The whole thing is chaotic and weird

        ‘Theft’ of an online thing is, yes, illegal, but if it is for the sake of preservation it is basically objectively morally good. There is a very fine, hard to see, easy to cross line of when piracy is good or bad and no-one actually knows where this line is.

        Your analogy is strange by the way.

      • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        62·
        2 years ago

        Prostitutes can’t have a romantic life unless they’re paid to do so? This is such a bizarre metaphor, let’s see where it leads 🍿

        Also: if there’s no consent it’s not steeling, it is rape. It’s really strange to think how because of someone’s profession we recontextualize the act as steeling and not rape. Ie it’s like saying one is steeling from prostitutes while not addressing the fucking rape. This is your brain on Milton Friedman economics - where your body is capital and it has a price.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          34·
          2 years ago

          Hey dude it’s called a metaphor. Sex is a fleeting service.

              • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                51·
                2 years ago

                Yes, that’s the definition of a service. Just not sure what your point is about talking about prostitutes as if one was steeling a service when they get raped. Steeling from creatives is rape or something?

                • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  22·
                  2 years ago

                  The metaphor is both limited and clear and any failure to understand is so absurd as to seem intentional.

                  • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                    42·
                    2 years ago

                    Wait, instead of metaphor you meant a literal example? Absurd indeed to compare rape to downloading something illegally.