Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    And the money grows on trees? You do realise that the money comes from people purchasing the product?

    Slower software because of DRM is an issue for, I estimate, perhaps 1 % of the software that is pirated on a regular basis. If even that.

    The few seconds of a screen you “have to wait through”, no, I do not think that justifies not paying for an entire movie.