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this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is "losing a sale" and not getting the money, right?

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[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 2 points 7 months ago

This assumes a conversion on each copy. That's not how digital copying works. We CAN share the same file indefinitely by copying the data without loss indefinitely. It's when you transcode/reencode the data that you introduce loss.

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