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submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by Dort_Owl@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Call me cynical, but I've seen so many of these internet "protests" over the years. I'm just so numb at this point. Nothing ever changes.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

“If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.”

Pirating still wouldn't be stealing if buying was owning, dipshits. Copying something is not theft.

The implication of this statement that it IS stealing in other circumstances pisses me off

[-] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago

Pirating is a radical as it gets for these comfortable children.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 39 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

to be fair this one is kind of a counter-slogan to the corporations pushing that piracy is theft.

the point is moot anyway because ai companies keep pirating shit to train their llms without consequence.

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 12 points 13 hours ago

Does this mean claiming that your brain is an LLM would serve as a legal defense to piracy?

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