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Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (pluralistic.net)
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[–] Chozo@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nearly all pirated content was most likely originally purchased once, and ripped. There’s no evidence that much of it is from shoplifted DVDs.

There's no evidence that "much" of it is from purchased DVDs, either.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

100% of the dozens of DVDs in this household were purchased. You have a few in your house that were shoplifted as a counter data point, maybe?