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by carewell 4y ago
How is this different from any other theft? I don’t respect the bakery down the road and will steal their products. Yes it’s protected by laws, but I don’t respect that either. It’s unfortunate, but it’s their own fault for not creating a v
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by carewell 4y ago
> when the copyrighted digital work is not made artificially scarce, it is worthless. If an artist digitally releases a music album for free - it's worthless? Meaning it has no value? Let's break this down. If I construct a phy
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by carewell 4y ago
Do you completely refuse to accept that there is such a phenomenon as mental illness? If you are of a sound mind and want to starve to death - have it your way. If you are a schizophrenic lying face down on the street - there is something w
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by carewell 4y ago
Your position somehow completely ignores the cost of... producing the content itself. It might come as a surprise, but people who write books, make music, film movies all have expenses. Yes it's "free" to make a digital copy,
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by carewell 4y ago
So has ignorance.
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by carewell 4y ago
I don't have a link to a scientific paper. But if you want to sum the losses yourself, here is something to start with: 1. Last Sunday I streamed a movie called Stutz (2022) for free instead of purchasing it from Netflix. That's a
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by carewell 4y ago
Have you ever faced a person cutting their veins in a psychotic episode? I have. Saying that it's OK to let them bleed out because they refuse help is an asinine, inhumane position. It seems you are speaking from a very disconnected th
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by carewell 4y ago
The Airbnb argument does not hold water. Would someone love to live for free in a vacant Airbnb? Yes. Almost everyone would. So let's then give everyone free housing forever, what are we, capitalist pigs?
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by carewell 4y ago
To me, this conviction to just let mentally ill people roam the streets is enabling, not compassionate. A truly compassionate view cares about well-being, not just agency. Would you rather see your own child rot on the street in a psychotic
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by carewell 4y ago
That is not what the article is about. It's about hospitalizing people who are severely mentally ill. How is that not a medical emergency?
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by carewell 4y ago
I don't know if it's some extreme libertarianism or just pure lack of compassion. Some people need - and deserve - help. "Your body, your choice" is just an all-around horrible argument to use for justifying suicide due
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by carewell 4y ago
So no books, movies, music - anything that can be duplicated digitally - has value as a thing to be sold? I am sorry, I am not sure this is a genuine argument. Why does digital duplication make any difference? When you are buying a physical
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by carewell 4y ago
That's a completely different question, of course. But to answer: on many occasions I am not committed to a particular movie, so just watch it in the background for a while and might end up not finishing. Sometimes I don't want to
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by carewell 4y ago
Do you think at least some of the content that was shared would have been purchased otherwise? We can't measure the impact directly but it's odd to assume that pirating content somehow does not affect the wellbeing of creators and
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by carewell 4y ago
(sorry, posted this comment in the wrong thread by accident) Do you think at least some of the content that was shared would have been purchased otherwise? We can't measure the impact directly but it's odd to assume that pirating
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by carewell 4y ago
In sorry about the situation you are in. Can we agree that different people have different urgent needs? I agree with you that you need a house. A mentally unstable person who can’t take care of themselves needs mental help. A person with h
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by carewell 4y ago
I like your optimism and on my best days I mostly agree with it. My skepticism is rooted in two phenomena: 1. Our society seems to be unable to address criminal behavior at the current scale, how can we expect it to improve if we expand the
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by carewell 4y ago
I don't know. On the one hand - yes, let's stop patronizing people. On the other hand we need to be responsible. There are many vulnerable people, they can't just get their shit together and become tech-savvy.
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by carewell 4y ago
I might sound too antagonistic on this topic, that's not my intention. F-droid is a great app repository, no problem with them whatsoever. I am highlighting the fact that a purist argument for a technological change that does not exten
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by carewell 4y ago
It's an interesting argument even though I don't fully agree with it. The Tank Man analogy is that even though the Chinese person has not actively pursued this topic, they experience the effects of censorship because this topic ha
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by carewell 4y ago
To be clear, F-droid is an excellent piece of software. It's small and is used mostly by quite technical people, so it's not as an attractive target as Apple's AppStore. But that's the thing: some technical solutions wor
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by carewell 4y ago
Any local alternative app store is a far easier target for government censorship. Look at Chinese and Russian Android app stores. They comply immediately, often without even publicizing that. Apple at least takes longer to force to comply.
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by carewell 4y ago
I would love to agree with this argument. And maybe 5 years ago I would have. But so far crypto has not demonstrated that it can really solve the issues you are listing. Yes, it can result in some capital outflow from oppressive countries,
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by carewell 4y ago
In absolutist, idealistic terms - yes, everyone should be 100% responsible for who they trust, should have no limits on this choice. In practical terms what we get is "Banks are not your friend" being proclaimed by a scammer argui
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by carewell 4y ago
We have to fight censorship, not introduce a new attack vector that will result in a whole new class of scams targeted at hundreds of millions of people. Tumblr, Twitter, TikTok - ok, let's focus on preserving access to these apps if y
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by carewell 4y ago
There are many alternative stores available for Android. In my experience this only leads to: 1. Less trusted software. Can I trust Russian Yandex app store? Can I trust Amazon app store? 2. Focus on upselling their own / affiliated ap
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by carewell 4y ago
It's a matter of priorities. Do I want you to be able to install an emulator? Of course. This is pure protectionism by a monopoly. Do I want my family to be able to install a fake banking or health app? No. So based on this principle,
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by carewell 4y ago
And if you have ever worked in IT or helped your extended family with tech issues you would know the difference between the web and iOS in terms of viruses, scam apps, tracking, ransomware, etc.
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by carewell 4y ago
I agree - for most users safety is more important than "alternative stores". This post is very manipulative in my view. It would be really easy to avoid that for the authors - just list the downsides of allowing any app to be inst
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by carewell 4y ago
I am arguing against their appeal. Censorship, decentralization, freedom to chose who you trust, etc. It’s the same appeal crypto uses to deceive inexperienced people into believing that these things are really relevant to their life. It’s

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