• @shrugal@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    The distinctions you name are completely irrelevant, because in both cases people are robbed of $100 they legally own. It doesn’t matter if physical goods or services are exchanged, or if the owner also physically possessed the money at some point.

    Idk where you live, but shop owners in my country will absolutely go after every penny someone has stolen from a store, and rightfully so!

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        17 months ago

        Again, no one is saying that they are the same. The argument is that their differences don’t matter in this context, because the negative outcome for the victim is the same. And that’s absolutely not the case for physical theft vs digital piracy, not even close.