_number8_@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 8 months agoWhy is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files?message-squaremessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1194arrow-down1message-squareWhy is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files?_number8_@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square81fedilinkfile-text
this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is “losing a sale” and not getting the money, right?
minus-squarefalkerie71@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·8 months agoPhysical media doesn’t have the luxury of endlessly replicating itself via a simple copy and paste.
minus-squareDeckweiss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-28 months agoDistributing data to everybody is the only communism that works. Endless replication, creates endless intelectual and creative wealth and diminishes financial wealth to zero.
Physical media doesn’t have the luxury of endlessly replicating itself via a simple copy and paste.
Distributing data to everybody is the only communism that works.
Endless replication, creates endless intelectual and creative wealth and diminishes financial wealth to zero.