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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by 988747 on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:30AM (#30587483)
Can you name the inventor of pizza? If I make a pizza at home, do they loose any money? Should it be forbidden for non-Italian people to make pizza, on the grounds of cultural appropriation?

I think it is exact opposite: the fact that pizza is one of the most popular foods worldwide benefits Italians. Any Italian can brag: we invented pizza. Also any Jamaican can brag: my homies invented reggae music. It doesn't matter that much whether a reggae song that you can hear in the radio was made by an actual Jamaican or not. Copying is the greatest compliment.

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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by johannes1234321 on Monday March 07, 2022 @11:22AM (#30589661)
That is in no way a counterpoint to my statement.

The margarita probably was created by Raffaele Esposito who had a restaurant and could sell Pizza to a large enough degree to refinance it as the value wasn't in the recipe, but in the exact way the produced it and having an oven and the restaurant and anybody who wanted to sell their versions had to invest in an oven and ingredients and then needs skills to make a better pizza.

However if i record a music album and I have no protection anybody can copy it for free, without any investment and in the current system the original musicians have no benefit as each copy of the recording would be equally well.

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