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Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (pluralistic.net)

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

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

What if that train is regularly running under capacity, or you are just standing?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're technicall still using the company's resources (it costs some energy to run the empty train), so I still don't think it really compares to piracy.

But since they are miniscule compared to what they are wasting by running largley empty trains I think it's morally ok in that case.