• @festnt@sh.itjust.works
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    11 month ago

    >“While digital piracy does not constitute theft in the strict sense defined under common law” >“That should help you understand how its still a kind of theft.”

    it’s not theft, but it is? i know it’s a crime, but not all crimes are theft. unless you want to define all crimes as theft.

    is murder a kind of theft, because you’re taking someone’s life? is kidnapping a kind theft, because you’re taking a person?

    it’s not theft. it’s a different crime. just like pterosaurs and dinosaurs are different groups of animals.

    • I’m not here to get pedantic with a person who doesn’t capitalize the first letter of their sentences. It’s a crime. It’s theft adjacent. This concludes my TED Talk.

      • @festnt@sh.itjust.works
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        11 month ago

        oh noooo i don’t press the shift key how could i do sucy a thing

        do you define any crime as “theft adjacent”? it would make sense if you did