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Why people Pirate? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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How to prevent pirating?

https://www.ign.com/articles/battlefield-6-player-with-over-400-hours-gets-full-refund-from-steam-after-key-modes-were-removed

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[–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I feel the same way about people applying terms like "theft" to events of intellectual property misuse like copying another artist's art style, reusing another comedian's jokes, etc. Those things are problems of their own, but should not be called "theft".

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    when people do it, it's interpretation - it's only theft if they're portraying themselves as the original artist, trying to leverage someone else's work for profit.

    now, when machines do the same thing, I think that very much is theft and should be illegal.

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