Stuka@lemmy.worldtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealingEnglish
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11 months agoYou’re right, I got frustrated with work and took it out on you, I apologize.
You’re right, I got frustrated with work and took it out on you, I apologize.
The penal code necessarily uses incredibly narrow definitions with very specific verbiage.
Using the word steal in OPs title is common use of the word, which aligns with the dictionary definition, they certainly are not quoting a legal definition
Get outta here with this dumb shit.
So much ‘verbal’ diarrahhea to try to make yourself feel better about what you’re doing.
I pirate shit, that is a form a theft. Cope with it or stop doing it.
You do understand the difference between penal code and the definition of a word, no? Surely the reason why the two are not at all even slightly interchangeable is plainly clear to anyone of reasonable intelligence.
To selectively focus on one small sliver of the definition of the word, ignoring the full meaning of the word and the context to push your agenda? Smells like propaganda.
I guess you can’t steal anything when you just decide to limit the definition of the word.
But if we’re in reality and using the way words are actually defined then yes you can steal something intangible, and no it does not require someone to be deprived of something.
Theft isn’t specific to property, you can steal services too.
The water is certainly muddy with digital media, but this is just another oversimplified argument.
If you need to do mental gymnastics to feel OK about pirating then…idk find something better than this.
See comments below for more mental gymnastics
That’s not the point: paying people for any random thing they decide to do doesn’t make sense and doesn’t work.
Freight? No.
You’d use a sprinter van for that.
Hahahahahaha
A perfech illustratration why lemmy sorta sucks.
When you don’t know that they are ethnically the same people…
Heresy! (I’m just a super picky eater)
The USS US
Microsoft thinks that if you type the full word you must not actually be looking for the thing you typed
I mean…they aren’t wrong.
If lemmy is to see long term adoption the server admins and app devs got a long way to go.
Comments refusing to load, constant 502 errors and others. Can’t submit half the time.
Weird Weird design choices. Why does gerboa have scroll arrows at the bottom of the screen in comment sections?? Did the devs forget that we use touch screens?
I’m from the US and have never heard crackpipe used as a racial term…certainly doesn’t immediately bring black people to mind.
Keep reading.