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You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever
www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-should-get-to-own-your-media-not-rent-it-forever
www.currentaffairs.orgYou Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it ForeverFrom Playstation Games to ebooks and family photos, corporations are replacing ownership with temporary access. But we don’t have to accept that.
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
If buying isn’t owning, then pirating cannot be stealing. These corporations are literally herding people back onto the seas. I need to go get myself a new flag with a skull and bones, since I tied my boat to the pier about fifteen-twenty years ago.
Replying to @OleFoFa@lemmy.world
Pirating is not and never has been stealing. You do not deprive anyone of anything when you make a copy of something.
Copyright is a dumb as shit system of artificial scarcity and always has been.
Replying to @masterspace@lemmy.ca
Its kinda true. I like to think of gog and gog-games. One is a storefront. One is a clean ui with all the games downloadable for free.
I think many would still use the free one vs paid. Myself, there’s something about owning it.
I pirated doom eternal back in the day. I was enjoying it so much I just bought it instead. 🤷
I get what you’re saying with “copying” vs “stealing”, which is true. But if you could clone your friends car for free you don’t need to buy a car and the business loses a sale.
Replying to @cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca
The business loses a sale of what though? A copy they never created or had possession of in the first place?
If I go home and build a PC, can Dell claim that I deprived them of a sale of a copy of one of their computers?
Replying to @cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca
doom eternal
back in the day
Oofff, I felt that
Replying to @Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
Yeah me too lol. I’m also old enough to say back in the day for OG doom too…
Replying to @cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca
So sad that gog-games will be shutting down soon. Are there any plans for forks?
Replying to @cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca
For digital media, pirating increases the number of sales