• Kellenved@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    If piracy actually deprived IP owners of money I’d being torrenting all day every day until they were broke lmao

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      22 days ago

      It deprives them of money if people would have paid otherwise. It generally doesn’t though, because most people will just pay up. If people are able to be convinced to pirate instead, they’d lose money from that effect. (It wouldn’t cost them money, but it would lose them money they could have made.)

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        22 days ago

        I read it as “torrent isn’t stealing, but if it was id do it even harder because those guys suck”.