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[-] 80085@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

"If Rome possessed the power to feed everyone amply at no greater cost than that of Caesar's own table, the people would sweep Caesar violently away if anyone were left to starve."

  • Eben Moglen

I think imposing artificial scarcity on art, information, and tools; and rationing based on those with the ability to pay is immoral. I mean sure, most art that people pirate is just empty entertainment. But imposing artificial scarcity on tools (software such as OSs, CAD, productivity software, etc), news, and academic papers behind expensive licenses that many cannot afford to pay is objectively immoral. If piracy did not exist, I am positive the world would be without many of the technological advances we have today.

[-] Digester@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the fact that oftentimes pirated content is just better. DRM free games run better and some work people have put into remastering media in general is outstanding.

I found a collection of the DBZ anime which is color corrected, proper aspect ratio, higher resolution, improved audio (from a different home release with better audio) made by fans for no profit. Even if you wanted to you couldn't purchase that but piracy made it possible.

Unofficial remasters of some old, poorly mastered songs have made a difference for me and I wouldn't be able to enjoy them without resorting to piracy.

[-] gjghkk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

As a Muslim, it is already forbidden to implement artificial scarcity. So as a Muslim, it's not an opinion, but objectively wrong, because God said that it is wrong.

[-] ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Genuinely curious about that now...

[-] gjghkk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I will warn you: We believe that there is good and wrong, and not humans, but Allah (god) is the one who created us and Allah is the one who decides what is good and what is wrong.

So basically what is wrong and what is right is pre-decided by Allah, so we don't have to decide if something is bad or not, because Allah already gave the info of that to us.

[-] ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I was interested about the artificial scarcity part

[-] rosenjcb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. IP isn't rivalrous like land or goods, so it has no place being artificially restricted. Property rights are a solution to human conflict in the natural world.

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