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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 73 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Piracy is now fully justified

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 58 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

It's only logical

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

This is the way.

If they can just break something I’ve paid for… then it is fair for me to take it without paying

[–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Why steal a moldy bread when there's fresh bread for free? https://www.libreoffice.org/

(Also, the moldy bread is highly addictive and watches you masturbate)

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

and not just for microslop products, but all megacorp products.

what one of them does reflects on the rest of them. if they wanted to, they could have lobbied for fair regulation. they didn't, or didn't succeed.