• grue@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It never applied to copyright infringement, which is often disparaged as “piracy.”

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      11 months ago

      Right, but I’m saying “piracy” has the same problem as “theft”. Copyright infringement is even less related to the traditional meaning of piracy than it is to theft.