KrimsonBun,
@KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml avatar

Intellectual property is theft

Honytawk,

If by “thief” you mean someone that copies information, then yes I am.

UlyssesT,

DONT COPY THAT FLOPPY sicko-jammin

BelieveRevolt,

”Are you a thief?”

gigachad Yes.

I’m sure this shit would’ve gone over well with teenage me who downloaded all his games and music using P2P software.

lukas,
@lukas@lemmy.haigner.me avatar

This is a huge win for piracy. You can’t image how many kids these days don’t know about piracy. They share account passwords, and split the costs to stream legally, up until the password sharing crackdown. Now, imagine what would happen if you inform them that these evil pirates get everything for free, without geo-blocking, without multiple services to get everything you want, and even pre-release. And inform them to be careful about malware. Man, they gonna research piracy and how to avoid malware in their free time and enjoy piracy to the fullest. Rights Alliance trains the new generation of pirates in Denmark.

uriel238,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I tell kids these days they are totally in one of those YAF novels where the teachers and ministers and testers (and even parents) are all in on the plot to force you through a doughboy program that turns you into an interchangeable, disposable, replaceable soldier or laborer to be exploited and discarded in some billionaire’s vanity project, all the while the world is covered in plastic residue and is liberally burning.

IP maximalist indoctrination feels entirely on par, especially considering how disengagement is a far greater threat to media industries than piracy.

Incidentally, IP infringement, including copyright infringement is never theft. Cheating creators and developers of a fair share of the profits, however, is theft.

AceFuzzLord,

If I was ever a parent of someone being taught anti-piracy lessons in school, I’d have to show him the error of the lessons by showing him the money I’d be saving by pirating and telling him that the money I don’t spend on large companies will in fact not kill them. Gotta set a good example.

Mantis_Toboggan,

So you mean there are all these movies, media, software that I can get for free, when I’m too broke to purchase it or subscribe to it and my parents wont buy it?

It’s like DARE, only that the drugs are actually free this time.

ReallyKinda,

I hope the discussions immediately turn to better questions like “what does it mean to own an idea or a blueprint or a sound.”

ReallyKinda,

I mean they’d already told us it’s like stealing a car, I thought we’d accepted that and moved on (with all our free cars).

BiomedOtaku,

This just shows they can’t win so they have to resort to brainwashing children.

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