• cowfodder@lemmy.zip
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    9 天前

    If payment for a digital item doesn’t confer ownership then digital piracy isn’t theft.

    • Michal@programming.dev
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      8 天前

      Theft is if you take something away and they lose it. This is more of a licensing issue.

      All the company is deprived of is revenue, at least that’s what they think, assuming everyone downloading their content for free would otherwise pay for it.