Jordan Kendrick :popos: (@jordan_kendrick@fosstodon.org)
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@Ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

I am ashamed that I hadn’t reasoned this through given all the rubbish digital services have pulled with “purchases” being lies.

So if someone creates a piece of art and I take a photo of it and sell the photo, or create prints of it, or even just give it give that photo to lots of people, what is that?

Distribution.

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Who cares? The point is, it’s not theft. The person who had the art still has the art, so it’s not theft.

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That is an assumption made that the artist still has the original thing that was not paid for. I understand what you’re being pedantic about. I just don’t think you’re right.

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What part of that statement suggests that the artist no longer has the original art? As stated, no theft occurred.

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