this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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Copyright infringement is not theft, and it is not immoral. It has never been, and it will not start to be, just because a company we don't like is doing it.
All im saying is if the courts determine a business can use copyrighted material to make profit without permission, that seems to set a precedent that makes the high seas legal. Those pirates often arent even profiting off it.
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It just proves that property rights are, and always have been, arbitrary, based on power and material incentives. Not the inalienable rights that liberals think they are.