• sakuraba@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    why are you asking questions backwards if tote already answered?

    a company is not a person, the only benefit a company can get from it is PROFIT and the value a real human being gets from pirating varies from pure entertainment to cultural capital

    • Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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      4 hours ago

      What you get from pirating is not having to pay. Purchasing a movie still gives you the same entertainment and cultural capital.

      Nobody is obligated to hand out for free something they put time, effort, and capital into creating and running. If someone can justify to themselves that it’s okay to download it for free, then criticizing AI companies for doing the exact same thing is hypocritical on their part.

      Making money and saving money achieve exactly the same thing: you end up with more to spend.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah because saving money as an individual is the same as a company choosing to not pay copyright holders so they can make more profit from pirating petabytes of info

        Very clever, you are clearly very intelligent

        Let me put an /s just so this doesn’t go over your head too