The subjects that you can’t even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

  • Ars Fireside
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    151 month ago

    Digital piracy not being an immoral crime (or crime at all) and not making one a horrible person.

      • Ars Fireside
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        21 month ago

        Well, it is controversial, unfortunately. I never understood the logic behind calling piracy a theft, because nothing actually gets stolen, only copied.

    • comfy
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      41 month ago

      For what it’s worth, I’ve personally never found it controversial to talk about in person. And this includes in countries where it’s a prosecuted crime.

      Copying is not theft, artificial scarcity in the digital world is a tragedy, and I intentionally avoid paying middle-men distributors (like streaming services and record companies) for art.