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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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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Stealing involves depriving the original owner of access or possession of the item. Duplication is not stealing because the item being duplicated is not taken away.

Even if you consider it stealing, then what defense do you have for the people who paid the price that would supposedly allow them to have it permanently and suddenly it still gets taken away? That's not stealing? Even if we accepted that piracy by people who didn't pay is theft, why should people who already paid for the media not be able to access it from somewhere else if their original access is denied?

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

By duplicating, you're depriving the company to the exclusive right to copy that thing. But I don't think stealing some nebulous concept of a monopoly like that is wrong.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

The keywords: company and monopoly.