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From my understanding theft has always been to take something and after the other party doesn't have it anymore. This never applied to piracy.
For example: I used to pirate games back in school as I didn't have the money to buy them. So there is no financial loss for the company. Yet they still frame it as bank robbery or something. "You wouldn't download a car"
I would download so many cars.
Back when I played GTA 4 I DID download so many cars.
Hollywood was so adamant about "not downloading a car".
Now they are the ones downloading actors.
Hollywood was so adamant about "not downloading a car".
That was a meme. The original ads were always "you wouldn't steal a car". Someone doctored a screenshot from the ad as a joke and now there are a whole bunch of people who think the ads actually said that.
You wouldn't steal a handbag; you wouldn't steal a car; ...
You wouldn’t steal a baby…
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It's always projection...
Its based on the false assumption that you would actually buy every single piece of media if you didn't chose to copy it.
It's all fake and people accept it. Such is the world.
Thepiratebay guy made an art project at one point that was a Raspberry Pi that did nothing but copy one song over and over again while keeping a running tally on a display of how much value it had "stolen" from the record industry by doing so.
“You wouldn’t download a car”
I not only would, I did!
This never applied to piracy.
Didn't it? 🏴☠️
It never applied to copyright infringement, which is often disparaged as "piracy."
Right, but I'm saying "piracy" has the same problem as "theft". Copyright infringement is even less related to the traditional meaning of piracy than it is to theft.