FUCK ALL SHOPLIFTERS!!
People who defend shoplifting from stores. I had a minor debate with someone who was pridefully going on about how we should steal from stores to affect the profits of the CEO and “The Man”.
I had to inform them that stealing from stores won’t necessarily affect the payroll of the corporation. It will only harm the stores and the employees inside. Because each and every store is operating on a budget of their own and what they sell determines said budget.
So if groups of people decided to steal from that store, sapping up the budget and hurting sales, then it’s going to hurt the pay of the people working there. Making shoplifters look both like an asshole and a dumbass in one.
Pirates who screech with entitlement instead of admitting it’s theft.
Just own it, you moral cowards. There’s plenty of valid reasons to pirate media, you don’t need to make shit up to salve your conscience.
Piracy is not theft if buying digital licenses is not owning
Yeah, because rental businesses don’t exist.
Just own it, coward.
how? most stuff is just released on streaming platforms, or on on-demand shit like that YT movie crap, owning stuff is more difficult than ever, the only real way to own your software/files is to pirate them, AKA making an offline copy.
I mean own the thieving nature.
Spite is a perfectly acceptable justification for stealing from terrible companies.
“Intellectual property” is not a real property, therefore its not “theft”
Private property was “invented” to avoid and resolve conflicts that arise from potential uses of scarce resources. As ideas are not scarce — they’re not property.
And that bs excuse about artists is laughable. IP is relatively new development, mostly enforced in western countries. And yet art existed throughout all of human history!
If anything, IP hinders creativity, and allows big corporations to monopolize the market.
Why did you just post a bunch of screeching?
Eh there’s the theft is the act of removing and taking something, piracy is copying something under copyright, hence the 2 different words.
You can call them the same but the you’re just choosing to ignore the theology that copyright is bs
Completely Unnecessary Cope
It’s called piracy because you’re stealing shit.
I don’t care if it is or isn’t. All of the Hollywood strikes should illustrate that any potential revenue would not benefit working class people, but would be funneled up to executives to pay for the coke which will get snorted off their cocks.
There are content creators who actually benefit from donations and merch sales. I do support them. I don’t think there’s any moral contradiction.
1: You clearly care if it’s justified, because you just justified it to yourself.
2: Class warfare is valid, and theft is an accepted and encouraged practice within it. They sure don’t mind doing it.
I was saying I don’t care if it is or isn’t theft, not whether it’s ethical.
I’m convinced taking money from multimillionaires is ethical. The money is better in the hands of people who need it.
It’s definitly not theft though.
You deserve to live in a world where artists aren’t entitled to profit from their work.
Unfortunately, that’s in a large part still this one regardless.
You can’t steal an immaterial thing. Because you can’t lose an immaterial thing, unless you’re forced to delete it.
REEEEEEE I DESERVE IT BECAUSE I WANT IT REEEEEEE