pelespirit comments on Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (8 children)

If I ran into a university and stole all of their teaching aids, books and art to "train my university students, that's still fucking theft. Why tf would you stick up for them in any way?

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Did you copy them or keep them?

Why are you interpreting this as defending them?

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Don't you have to steal them to copy them? The fact that no one knew they were stealing them to copy, means the owners didn't know, couldn't opt out or protect them. Just because it's not a law yet, doesn't make it okay.

Why are you interpreting this as defending them?

Why are you not? You wrote the defense out.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

If someone still has their belongings after a “theft” it’s not theft.

What they are doing is violating the artists (and much more heinous things), but calling it theft isn’t accurate, has undesirable side effects, and doesn’t solve the problem of stopping them doing what they’re doing.

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)