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Piracy is not stealing, it's counterfeiting. If you steal a car, the car company might lose money, but can make up the losses. With counterfeiting, it devalue
by johnny99k 2y ago
Piracy is not stealing, it's counterfeiting. If you steal a car, the car company might lose money, but can make up the losses. With counterfeiting, it devalues the original, which has the possibility of destroying the entire product/business.
- Marsymars 2y agoI don’t think a definition of counterfeiting that includes unlicensed stock photography is an especially salient one.
- jobs_throwaway 2y ago> With counterfeiting, it devalues the original, which has the possibility of destroying the entire product/business. The evidence says that piracy actually increases the value of the original as pirates spend more money on the media than they would without the piracy option
- randomdata 2y agoIt is neither stealing or counterfeiting, it is copyright infringement.