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If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing (fosstodon.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm a huge pirate but I also have subscriptions to publications, buy a bunch of games, buy music and even have almost every release from a few labels, go to concerts as much as I can. It's not about the money for me at all

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We should call it archiving instead of piracy to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Great idea! It's up to us to preserve culture, we can't leave it to those only motivated by profit otherwise cultural history will be lost when it becomes unprofitable.

And since we're not coordinating, I'd better make sure I preserve the bits of culture important to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Eternal archival format shifting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Better yet, let's call it "arrchiving"!