It’s not theft, because it doesn’t deprive the original owner of anything.
But if it did, theft from billionaire hollywood studio owners is cool and good.
You’re not paying the wages of the hollywood workers, you’re just increasing the funds the studios have to break the worker’s strikes and further depress their conditions.
What’s legal is not necessarily what’s moral, and there’s nothing immoral about freely procuring an infinitely replicable digital product. If anything, it’s immoral to enclose upon them and charge rents for them. No better than landlords, the big streaming companies, save for the fact that entertainment isn’t vital for living.
You think people renting out their property is immoral?
Correct. All wealth is the product of labor, therefore rent and profit are theft, and workers taking back a bit of the wealth stolen from them is good.
Jesus? No, Adam Smith actually. Yeah, it’s called the labor theory of value. I’m not sure why you think that’s a knee slapper. Never heard of it before? That’s like a creationist laughing because they haven’t heard of the theory of evolution before… in 2023.
This is one of those times where it’s not even worth bothering trying to argue. When your opinion and points are that bad there’s no getting through to you.
“When I realize I am trying to argue against a >century-old concept that I’ve never heard of before but has extensive literature written about it by many of the most world-renowned thinkers and scientists on socio-economics and that has had literal world-changing revolutions fought in large part because of it, I will still maintain my illusion that I’m not just an ignorant fool by pretending it’s actually the former that is ridiculous and not me.”
That’s fine by me, keep to your little bubble of ignorance. Kinda sad, though. Might I suggest reading a book some time?
Landlords are parasites that prey on the vulnerable and produce nothing of value. Corporations who own and profit from ”intellectual property” are no different.
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Found the guy who would absolutely own slaves if it were still legal. (And then think he pwned the abolitionists by telling them they’re just jealous because they don’t own any people).
This moron who thinks a Marxist is “jealous” for not exploiting people thinks I’m delusional. e: And who also laughed because they don’t know what the labor theory of value is!
e: And as for the edit you added, yeah, there is a difference, but one of degree, not of kind. That was the point of the illustration by analogy genius.
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
I do think your position is super confusing, earlier in the thread you’re telling people to download stuff from Usenet, now you’re whining about ThEfT?
If you’re gonna profile stalk me to try and “gotcha” me with previous comments you’re gonna have to do better than that.
I’m not against piracy of tv shows/movies because as I said in other comments it’s essentially the most victimless theft you can do - but it’s still theft. You can do something and tell people to do it while still acknowledging that it’s wrong.
Gee I am shocked that you pulled the “yOuRe A tRaNsPhObE” card because I disagree with your stance. Shocked. Same old tactics from your kind every time. Can’t actually defend your position? No matter, just try and get the other person cancelled by shouting transphobe and telling lies!
I’m quite aware there’s some silly laws written by those same billionaire’s lobbies and passed by their politicians.
Copying something is quite obviously not stealing from someone.
But again, stealing back some of the wealth the billionaires have stolen from us is morally good. If you’re not stealing from them, you’re stealing from your family to support your family’s further deprivation.
And did you at any point ask yourself why they own these things? Why Netflix the corporate entity owns media it did not produce while stiffing the people that did out of just compensation? Or how that information slightly complicates the otherwise simple nature of property and theft?
The only mental gymnast here is you bud. The simple fact is, labor creates value, and Netflix has no part in that. I doubt they even put up any of their own capital in producing these shows.
Why they own these things? Because they paid for it.
How are Netflix stiffing people out of compensation? Netflix pays the rights holders for the right to stream the content.
On your last part you could not be more wrong. Netflix spent over $6 billion in 2021 on original content. Content they created. They pay for the streaming rights to everything that’s on Netflix up front - in 2021 they paid $11 billion to the rights holders of the content in order to stream it on their platform.
You’re trying to justify theft. You’re the one doing the mental gymnastics.
Welp, you’re free to keep giving your hard-earned money to Disney’s shareholders to compensate them for the hard work of owning property and pay for the privilege of watching ads.
It’s not theft, because it doesn’t deprive the original owner of anything.
That’s not how theft works. It’s called intellectual property. You are depriving the creator of compensation for the work they have dedicated resources to producing.
If it wasn’t, no one would ever develop any kind of software or scientific research or write a book or produce any kind of intangible work whatsoever.
This is complete nonsense fabricated by entitled children and it is exhausting.
theft from billionaire hollywood studio owners is cool and good.
You can justify it however you want. That’s what any criminal does. It doesn’t make it not theft.
Not so. The people who actually produce media (actors, writers, production crew) rarely if ever see fair compensation or residuals for their work. The only people you’re stealing from are the people who already stole the value that the actual creators generated, i.e. the studio. And in my opinion, you can’t rob a thief anyway.
This logic doesn’t hold with smaller and/or independent projects, which even the saltiest pirates acknowledge should be payed for in the usual manner.
Edit: Your point about compensation doesn’t even have a completely factual basis. Numerous scientific and medical advancements throughout history have been produced without compensation, often because their creators intentionally declined to profit from them. Sir Banting is a favored example around here; he was one of the first to synthesize insulin, and he and his colleagues opted not to patent it so that it would be as widely available as possible.
The people who actually produce media (actors, writers, production crew) rarely if ever see fair compensation or residuals for their work.
And in your utopia there would be zero compensation because the project would never be started in the first place.
The only people you’re stealing from are the people who already stole the value that the actual creators generated, i.e. the studio.
What? How does a studio steal the value that they created…?
This logic doesn’t hold with smaller and/or independent projects
No one mentioned anything about “small projects”. Tell me which of these small projects are not allowed to be pirated?
Your point about compensation doesn’t even have a completely factual basis. Numerous scientific and medical advancements throughout history have been produced without compensation
Because they have fucking day jobs that allow them the freedom to do that. Day jobs where they’re paid to do the same kind of work professionally and are able to dedicate the time to develop the skills and experience necessary to develop these side projects…
Who said anything about who owns the IP? Software developers get paid because people pay for their software. If no one paid for it, it would never be made. Why is this so hard to understand?
They make things without getting compensated for it. Same goes for everyone whose hobbies are drawing, painting, making music or any creative endeavor. I’m sure you also have hobbies, are you paid to do them?
It’s not theft, because it doesn’t deprive the original owner of anything.
But if it did, theft from billionaire hollywood studio owners is cool and good.
You’re not paying the wages of the hollywood workers, you’re just increasing the funds the studios have to break the worker’s strikes and further depress their conditions.
It’s legally theft. You can try as much mental gymnastics as you want to try and convince yourself you’re not breaking the law, but you are.
It’s probably the most victimless theft that there is, but it’s still theft.
What’s legal is not necessarily what’s moral, and there’s nothing immoral about freely procuring an infinitely replicable digital product. If anything, it’s immoral to enclose upon them and charge rents for them. No better than landlords, the big streaming companies, save for the fact that entertainment isn’t vital for living.
There’s absolutely something immoral about stealing. If you don’t think there is then it just means your morals are out of whack.
You think people renting out their property is immoral? Yeah nah, your opinion on this is wrong.
Correct. All wealth is the product of labor, therefore rent and profit are theft, and workers taking back a bit of the wealth stolen from them is good.
Jesus Christ 😂
Jesus? No, Adam Smith actually. Yeah, it’s called the labor theory of value. I’m not sure why you think that’s a knee slapper.
Never heard of it before? That’s like a creationist laughing because they haven’t heard of the theory of evolution before… in 2023.
“Rent is theft”
“Profit is theft”
This is one of those times where it’s not even worth bothering trying to argue. When your opinion and points are that bad there’s no getting through to you.
“When I realize I am trying to argue against a >century-old concept that I’ve never heard of before but has extensive literature written about it by many of the most world-renowned thinkers and scientists on socio-economics and that has had literal world-changing revolutions fought in large part because of it, I will still maintain my illusion that I’m not just an ignorant fool by pretending it’s actually the former that is ridiculous and not me.”
That’s fine by me, keep to your little bubble of ignorance. Kinda sad, though. Might I suggest reading a book some time?
Landlords are parasites that prey on the vulnerable and produce nothing of value. Corporations who own and profit from ”intellectual property” are no different.
Found the guy who’s jealous he doesn’t have an investment property.
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Found the guy who would absolutely own slaves if it were still legal. (And then think he pwned the abolitionists by telling them they’re just jealous because they don’t own any people).
😂 good lord you’re delusional. There’s a slight difference between thinking you can profit off your assets that are in demand, and owning slaves.
This moron who thinks a Marxist is “jealous” for not exploiting people thinks I’m delusional.
e: And who also laughed because they don’t know what the labor theory of value is! 
e: And as for the edit you added, yeah, there is a difference, but one of degree, not of kind. That was the point of the illustration by analogy genius.
Sovereignty was never ceded, you’re profiting off stolen Aboriginal land, you muppet.
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
I do think your position is super confusing, earlier in the thread you’re telling people to download stuff from Usenet, now you’re whining about ThEfT?
edit: Surprise, you’re also a transphobic piece of shit.
If you’re gonna profile stalk me to try and “gotcha” me with previous comments you’re gonna have to do better than that.
I’m not against piracy of tv shows/movies because as I said in other comments it’s essentially the most victimless theft you can do - but it’s still theft. You can do something and tell people to do it while still acknowledging that it’s wrong.
Gee I am shocked that you pulled the “yOuRe A tRaNsPhObE” card because I disagree with your stance. Shocked. Same old tactics from your kind every time. Can’t actually defend your position? No matter, just try and get the other person cancelled by shouting transphobe and telling lies!
And what precisely is the moral issue with stealing? Depriving someone of their personal property, which piracy is not.
I’m quite aware there’s some silly laws written by those same billionaire’s lobbies and passed by their politicians.
Copying something is quite obviously not stealing from someone.
But again, stealing back some of the wealth the billionaires have stolen from us is morally good. If you’re not stealing from them, you’re stealing from your family to support your family’s further deprivation.
It absolutely is stealing. You’re taking something that is not yours, something that someone else owns and charges money for.
Mental gymnastics.
And did you at any point ask yourself why they own these things? Why Netflix the corporate entity owns media it did not produce while stiffing the people that did out of just compensation? Or how that information slightly complicates the otherwise simple nature of property and theft?
The only mental gymnast here is you bud. The simple fact is, labor creates value, and Netflix has no part in that. I doubt they even put up any of their own capital in producing these shows.
I cant believe I’m seeing anyone here defending a corporation. What the hell??
I can’t believe I’m seeing anyone here straight up justifying theft. What the hell!?
God liberals are such losers. Lick those boots harder, weirdo
Scratch that, boot licking is pathetic. What a loser
Why they own these things? Because they paid for it.
How are Netflix stiffing people out of compensation? Netflix pays the rights holders for the right to stream the content.
On your last part you could not be more wrong. Netflix spent over $6 billion in 2021 on original content. Content they created. They pay for the streaming rights to everything that’s on Netflix up front - in 2021 they paid $11 billion to the rights holders of the content in order to stream it on their platform.
You’re trying to justify theft. You’re the one doing the mental gymnastics.
I think I see the confusion, you believe in private and intellectual property.
I see the problem - you’re delusional.
Welp, you’re free to keep giving your hard-earned money to Disney’s shareholders to compensate them for the hard work of owning property and pay for the privilege of watching ads.
Personally I don’t think I will.
That’s not how theft works. It’s called intellectual property. You are depriving the creator of compensation for the work they have dedicated resources to producing.
If it wasn’t, no one would ever develop any kind of software or scientific research or write a book or produce any kind of intangible work whatsoever.
This is complete nonsense fabricated by entitled children and it is exhausting.
You can justify it however you want. That’s what any criminal does. It doesn’t make it not theft.
Not so. The people who actually produce media (actors, writers, production crew) rarely if ever see fair compensation or residuals for their work. The only people you’re stealing from are the people who already stole the value that the actual creators generated, i.e. the studio. And in my opinion, you can’t rob a thief anyway.
This logic doesn’t hold with smaller and/or independent projects, which even the saltiest pirates acknowledge should be payed for in the usual manner.
Edit: Your point about compensation doesn’t even have a completely factual basis. Numerous scientific and medical advancements throughout history have been produced without compensation, often because their creators intentionally declined to profit from them. Sir Banting is a favored example around here; he was one of the first to synthesize insulin, and he and his colleagues opted not to patent it so that it would be as widely available as possible.
And in your utopia there would be zero compensation because the project would never be started in the first place.
What? How does a studio steal the value that they created…?
No one mentioned anything about “small projects”. Tell me which of these small projects are not allowed to be pirated?
Because they have fucking day jobs that allow them the freedom to do that. Day jobs where they’re paid to do the same kind of work professionally and are able to dedicate the time to develop the skills and experience necessary to develop these side projects…
The overwhelming majority of software developers and researchers are paid a salary and don’t get own the IP of their inventions.
Who said anything about who owns the IP? Software developers get paid because people pay for their software. If no one paid for it, it would never be made. Why is this so hard to understand?
lol I clicked your name to see if you were doing a bit, and apparently you don’t tip servers.
People who deserve money, according to Huge Anus:
[❌]Food service workers
[❌]Hollywood workers
[❌]Tech workers
[✅]Landlords, Shareholders, copyright trolls, and IP rights giants
Okay so now you’re just going to make up random lies about me. That’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
nope, pretty sure they have you dead to rights
You did when you said you’re depriving the creator of compensation when you pirate something.
Open source software developers, fan translators, emulation developers, etc.: lol.
What about them? roflmao
They make things without getting compensated for it. Same goes for everyone whose hobbies are drawing, painting, making music or any creative endeavor. I’m sure you also have hobbies, are you paid to do them?