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You paid for it, but you never bought it. So you would still not have a clean conscience.
by ragazzina 3mo ago
You paid for it, but you never bought it. So you would still not have a clean conscience.
- matheusmoreira 3mo agoIf you paid for it, then not a single person in the world can ever accuse you of "stealing" from creators, or of failing to support them. They named the price, and the price was paid. The licensing and rent seeking shenanigans of corporations and their lawyers are utterly irrelevant.
- a96 3mo agoPractically infinite number of persons in law enforcement and blackmail businesses absolutely would accuse you.
- matheusmoreira 3mo agoI meant normal people, not the enforcers of monopolistic laws that were bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists.
- ragazzina 3mo agoHaving a clean conscience depends on one's internal moral values, not from what the rest of the world accuses of. If one's moral compass would feel the need to having paid for it to feel satisfied, it would also need to having bought it.
- matheusmoreira 3mo agoCopyright is an absurd monopoly, tolerated because it is among the least bad ways to to compensate creators for their work. Therefore, if you have compensated creators, you are morally in the clear, objectively, no matter what else you do.