i see it as a philosophical question really: is a digital copy equal to the original? I postulate that it isnt - a copy is a different object, it resides on a different computer, and occupies space on that computer’s storage media.
so, if you’re making a copy, it’s not really “piracy” because the copy you made isnt the original. the original has value (imagined or otherwise)
But the “original” isn’t an original either. They are both just computer files. Strings of bytes that a program knows how to interpret. If you think there’s any special value to the specific instance of that string of bytes on your hard drive, then sorry to say but it gets destroyed every time you defrag your hard drive (because it is not that exact sequence of bytes anymore, it’s a copy in a different sector of the drive)
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i see it as a philosophical question really: is a digital copy equal to the original? I postulate that it isnt - a copy is a different object, it resides on a different computer, and occupies space on that computer’s storage media.
so, if you’re making a copy, it’s not really “piracy” because the copy you made isnt the original. the original has value (imagined or otherwise)
But the “original” isn’t an original either. They are both just computer files. Strings of bytes that a program knows how to interpret. If you think there’s any special value to the specific instance of that string of bytes on your hard drive, then sorry to say but it gets destroyed every time you defrag your hard drive (because it is not that exact sequence of bytes anymore, it’s a copy in a different sector of the drive)