I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

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    11 months ago

    It’s not theft though. When you steal something you deprive someone else of it.

    It’s just copyright infringement. Since copyright is an artificial temporary monopoly granted by the government, it’s pretty different from “theft”.

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      11 months ago

      Are you not depriving someone else of their legal right to control the distribution of copies of their work?

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        11 months ago

        If you don’t drink a verification can, are you depriving Mountain Dew of their legal right to make you drink verification cans? If you don’t enroll in the IOF, are you depriving Israel of its legal right to murder thousands of darker skinned people? Maybe some legal rights are so stupid they shouldn’t exist?

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        11 months ago

        Yes, which is not theft. It’s not murder either. Nor is it blasphemy. It’s just copyright infringement.

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          11 months ago

          When you steal something you deprive someone else of it.

          Ok, I was just going off what you said previously.