[ SECRET POST #2022 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2022 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[ariakas]

There is. It's called 'stealing.'

And yet, you can't find a single source to back it up when it comes to this supposedly all-encompassing word that defines both piracy and tax evasion as "subcategories of stealing in the common parlance".

So no, I don't buy your argument. At all. Nor do, as I pointed out, many people. With zero evidence I don;t have to.

[(Anonymous)]

oh for fuck sake.

Everyone who uses the word stealing to mean taking something you shouldn't. Many people. It's such a common understanding of the word people tend to to explain it because it's like looking at the sky and going "it's commonly blue"


Here's a stupid fucking source for your ridiculous pedantic argument
http://youtu.be/HmZm8vNHBSU

I'm not sure if this is specific to my country's DVDs/videos/whatever. But the implication here is that people GET that the general term is stealing.
You are not allowed to download or rip this DVD. BECAUSE IT'S STEALING

[ariakas]

Lol, read down the thread.

This is the exact same video I used to prove your argument incorrect. You'll notice that the vast majority of the comments disagree with calling piracy stealing, resulting in the negative rating. The video-makers themselves know that the difference in intent and result between piracy and theft exists, which is why they say "you wouldn't steal a car" in the first place, because is the assumption is that while you likely wouldn't steal you likely would infringe on copyright. The core of the video is the acknowledgement that in the common perception, piracy =/= stealing. Were this not so, they would not have to make the video in the first place to enforce the notion. It is the case that so many people recognize that piracy =/= that they have to produce propaganda to try to convince them.

So yeah, you've demonstrated precisely the opposite.

You are not allowed to rip the DVD. BECAUSE IT'S COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. (Though the MPAA would really, really like if you'd conflate it with stealing, because it's easier for them to demonize pirates!)

[anonymouslyyours]

FUCK YOU I WOULD IF I COULD!
Is a pretty popular meme in response to that statement.

[ariakas]

Yes, I am aware of the "You wouldn't download a car!/I would if i could" meme.

Which proves the point, no? What they mean by "fuck you I would if I could" is that they would download a car - i.e. access a functional copy without the permission of, say, Toyota, while the original car sits in the dealership waiting for sale.

Whereas, if there's no difference between that and walking breaking into and making off with one in the parking lot, why wouldn't they do so? After all, they're the same! They're stealing!

The very fact that they would do one and not the other pretty much drives home the point that they aren't the same.