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You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever (www.currentaffairs.org)
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[โ€“] masterspace@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Pirating is not and never has been stealing. You do not deprive anyone of anything when you make a copy of something.

Copyright is a dumb as shit system of artificial scarcity and always has been.

[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Its kinda true. I like to think of gog and gog-games. One is a storefront. One is a clean ui with all the games downloadable for free.

I think many would still use the free one vs paid. Myself, there's something about owning it.

I pirated doom eternal back in the day. I was enjoying it so much I just bought it instead. ๐Ÿคท

I get what you're saying with "copying" vs "stealing", which is true. But if you could clone your friends car for free you don't need to buy a car and the business loses a sale.

[โ€“] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 8 points 1 day ago

For digital media, pirating increases the number of sales

[โ€“] masterspace@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The business loses a sale of what though? A copy they never created or had possession of in the first place?

If I go home and build a PC, can Dell claim that I deprived them of a sale of a copy of one of their computers?

[โ€“] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

doom eternal

back in the day

Oofff, I felt that

[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

Yeah me too lol. I'm also old enough to say back in the day for OG doom too...

[โ€“] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

So sad that gog-games will be shutting down soon. Are there any plans for forks?