Driving off with the rental car is a fine analogy if we were comparing this to not returning a DVD you rented.
But this is not that. And that is kind of the point.
Piracy is a breach of contract for sure. The point the author is trying to make is that our current licensing contracts around media are out of touch with the social contract (you pay for something, you get it).
Hence the moral hazard. So companies will flaunt the social contract (like in the case of Sony) with impunity but will get rightous as soon as people flaunt the legal contract. Itās a double standard, where all the power is in the hands of those with the biggest legal department.
You canāt define ātheftā untill you first define justice. And if consumers and media holders canāt even agree to a just system, then why bother categorizing anything as theft at all?
Oh I agree with the article as I already stated in my previous comment, and I hope people read it, because my only argument really is that it has a poor headline. The headline says that taking media that you wouldnāt have owned isnāt piracy (which is nonsense), the article says that piracy is justified when ownership is as nebulous as it often is with a lot of digital media these days (which I agree with).
The headline says āyouāre told that what youāre doing is buying by the people selling you the media, but thatās not what youāre actually doing. So, if theyāre lying to you about what youāre buying, then pirating a different thing isnāt stealing the thing they are trying to sell you.ā
Itās definitely tongue in cheek and has some hyperbole in it, but that is the gist of the statement.
then pirating a different thing isnāt stealing the thing they are trying to sell you.
Maybe not that version of the thing specifically, but itās still stealing if they ultimately created it and you obtained it ignoring their conditions for sale.
Donāt get me wrong, you have a really good point. A lot of times the bootleg version of a good is better than the legal version because of the legal versionās tos and spyware enforcing them. I just donāt see how obtaining the bootleg isnāt piracy/stealing. Thereās good justification for stealing it imo (as a pirate myself), but thatās all it is, justification. Itās still stealing.
So I guess Iām just being pedantic when I say I disagree with you, but realize I see where youāre coming from, and that we basically agree in spirit
Driving off with the rental car is a fine analogy if we were comparing this to not returning a DVD you rented.
But this is not that. And that is kind of the point.
Piracy is a breach of contract for sure. The point the author is trying to make is that our current licensing contracts around media are out of touch with the social contract (you pay for something, you get it).
Hence the moral hazard. So companies will flaunt the social contract (like in the case of Sony) with impunity but will get rightous as soon as people flaunt the legal contract. Itās a double standard, where all the power is in the hands of those with the biggest legal department.
You canāt define ātheftā untill you first define justice. And if consumers and media holders canāt even agree to a just system, then why bother categorizing anything as theft at all?
Oh I agree with the article as I already stated in my previous comment, and I hope people read it, because my only argument really is that it has a poor headline. The headline says that taking media that you wouldnāt have owned isnāt piracy (which is nonsense), the article says that piracy is justified when ownership is as nebulous as it often is with a lot of digital media these days (which I agree with).
No no, that is not what the headline says.
The headline says āyouāre told that what youāre doing is buying by the people selling you the media, but thatās not what youāre actually doing. So, if theyāre lying to you about what youāre buying, then pirating a different thing isnāt stealing the thing they are trying to sell you.ā
Itās definitely tongue in cheek and has some hyperbole in it, but that is the gist of the statement.
Maybe not that version of the thing specifically, but itās still stealing if they ultimately created it and you obtained it ignoring their conditions for sale.
Donāt get me wrong, you have a really good point. A lot of times the bootleg version of a good is better than the legal version because of the legal versionās tos and spyware enforcing them. I just donāt see how obtaining the bootleg isnāt piracy/stealing. Thereās good justification for stealing it imo (as a pirate myself), but thatās all it is, justification. Itās still stealing.
So I guess Iām just being pedantic when I say I disagree with you, but realize I see where youāre coming from, and that we basically agree in spirit
I get ya. I think thereās also a petulant sentiment of āyou donāt want to play fair? Then fuck you, I wonāt eitherā