• trebuchet@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Lemmy sure loves copyright and intellectual property once you change who the pirate is.

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      10 months ago

      Almost like the context matters and the world isn’t entirely made up of black and white binary choices because we’re not robots or computers and discrete logic does not apply to human moral arguments.

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        10 months ago

        Conveniently, these moral arguments that are freed from the confines of discrete logic also allow people on /c/piracy to ignore the rules when justifying their own piracy, and still condemn others they already happen to dislike when they do piracy.

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      10 months ago

      That’s like saying everyone should let people enjoy their kinks and you come in and say "aha, then pedophilia is allowed, ya?

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      10 months ago

      Ralph Waldo Emerson:

      A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." His point was that only small-minded men refused to rethink their prior beliefs.

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        10 months ago

        So what you’re saying is this episode has caused you/others here on /c/piracy to rethink your prior beliefs, and now you see some value in the copyright legal regime?

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          10 months ago

          Not really. We believe in what we believe. You’re the goblin who sticks on to consistency.

          Piracy is a service problem. If you want it to disappear, corporate greed got to disappear.