So, when you’re licking the boot, do you start at the heel or the toe?
So, when you’re licking the boot, do you start at the heel or the toe?
If we were selfish, we wouldn’t be sharing our files in the first place, and the system would fall apart.
It’s the fact that we aren’t selfish that filesharing works at all.
Piracy is. Filesharing isn’t.
When you steal books from a library, you’re preventing others from accessing those books. When you download a digital copy of a book, you aren’t.
Same thing with money. If you stole my money, I’d be upset, but I wouldn’t be upset if I had infinite money.
Why should I?
It was a cost-cutting measure to save money on tapes by reusing the old ones.
Lots of people come have a choice in who their ISP is. I don’t. For my area, there’s one provider. If I want to change that, I have to move.
To me, updates and DLC serve different purposes. Updates are for bugfixes, new features, feature enhancements, etc. DLC is new game stuff, like additional characters and levels and so on.
There needs to be a tech-workers’ union. (Not just for gaming.)
Define “anonymous”. I use Soulseek, but you need an account for that.
Video game accessory: 1/10
Fashion accessory: 10/10
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So, Mastodon has this same problem?
Do you have an example?
Imagine you’re trying to organize people to throw a party, and you have somebody come in who wants to argue that parties are evil because they distract people from glorifying God. Should you hear this person out and engage them in conversation? Or just block them?
What makes the EU an easy target for copyright lawsuits?
“Intellectual property” is a corpo term, and using it accepts their framing. They’re trying to conflate copyright, trademark, and patent law with property law.
Back when “FOSS” was “Free as in Beer” and fuck that Richard Stallman with his “free as in speech” bullshit
FOSS has always been about “free as in speech”, and Stallman has said that it’s more ethical to illegally download closed-source software than to pay for it.
FOSS vs. proprietary is tangential to the discussion over filesharing, anyway, because it addresses different issues. FOSS isn’t good because it’s zero-cost, it’s good because it respects user freedoms.
I think that funding creators is great if you have the money and the inclination. I just don’t think that it makes you an asshole if you don’t.
There are creators whom I fund because they give me exclusive extra content on their Patreons or sometimes if I just think that their work is important enough and I want to see it continue. If I decide that I need that money for something else, that’s up to me.