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Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (pluralistic.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nani?

If what you care about is the abstract idea that the idea of something can be owned, whether the book is in the library or in my pocket doesn't change the fact that the idea of the book is by the author. I can move the book wherever - across even national borders if I want to - and that "intrinsic value" doesn't change.