geese_feces [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months ago"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"pluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1148arrow-down1external-link"If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing"pluralistic.netgeese_feces [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squarejoaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·11 months agoyes but you’re stealing from the alternate universe where a company would have earned money for the product you pirated, you sicko do you have no empathy for hypothetical stockholders from another dimension?
minus-squareplinky [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoGoing through the shop and not buying all the stuff i see: shop owner - that would be 1 million in unrealized profit, thank you very much
yes but you’re stealing from the alternate universe where a company would have earned money for the product you pirated, you sicko
do you have no empathy for hypothetical stockholders from another dimension?
Going through the shop and not buying all the stuff i see: shop owner - that would be 1 million in unrealized profit, thank you very much