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Asookayesterday at 10:06 PM5 repliesview on HN

Good. The internet is meant to uplift human society, not enable petty theft. If only they could have gone after each thief to take back the money they stole.


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RiverCrochetyesterday at 10:25 PM

Non-sequitur. The Internet only enables the copying of bits and not their theft, as the original bits aren't removed from their source. A remote-copy-and-delete might be considered a theft, but Bittorrent has no delete provisions and that's not really inherent to the infrastructure of the Internet per se (e.g. your network card can't physically make bits on the other side in storage disappear).

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orbisvicisyesterday at 10:39 PM

That's why I don't feel bad pirating textbooks.

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KumaBearyesterday at 10:37 PM

Buddy we’d still be listening to cds if pirating didn’t exist.

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Telaneoyesterday at 11:59 PM

/s?

tene80iyesterday at 10:14 PM

You’ll find that a pretty unpopular attitude around here (hence the downvoting on your comment, and I assume mine shortly), but you are right.

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