The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Because the issue at hand is more like if you bought tickets to the circus, but when you went to go see it you were told the circus isn’t there anymore and you don’t get a refund.

    That I would definately call stealing, and if I wanted to see the circus the next time it was in town I would absolutely sneak in.

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      11 months ago

      A more honest analogy for the situation was that there are very few incidents of circuses doing that and now people demand it’s morally justified to get free entrance to every circus, concert, fair, museum, …

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        11 months ago

        It’s not just a few circusses. Every major circus company seems to consistently pull this trick.

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          11 months ago

          But people aren’t just sharing media that is affected. They pirate everything, even when there are ways to buy and own it.

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            11 months ago

            But people aren’t just sharing media that is affected. They pirate everything, even when there are ways to buy and own it.

            “Some people speed on roads, so all roads are bad.”

            This conversation is about media you can’t buy and own.