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If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing
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"Piracy isn't stealing" doesn't require a qualifier. It's objectively a separate, lesser crime. That correlation is just the result of effective, aggressive marketing that conflates the two. It was so effective that everyone misremembers the "you wouldn't steal a car" ad.
I think you mean this one
Same!
lol. You give an ad spot way too much credit
Thanks for that trip down memory lane. I was just a child when I saw that, and my first thought was "but... But when I steal from someone, they don't have it anymore. If I download it, they still have it"
Call it "illegal copy" (because fuck customer rights with "usage licenses") and we're good.
The one with the pirated music?
No, that was a different one.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
the "you wouldn't
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