Re:Russia to legalize software piracy
by d23 on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:59AM
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I you want to get really pedantic with the use of "literally": you're misquoting him. He didn't say you're literally "taking" the money out of their pocket; he said they literally have less in their pocket. I guess we could argue most people don't use cash these days so it's not literally in their pocket, but that's a level of pedantry I don't think is really valuable in a public forum.
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I'm not misquoting them. How do you propose I can cause someone to _literally_ have less money in their pocket, without me _literally_ taking it out of their pocket? Regardless of whether that pocket is a literal pocket, or a bank account? By definition I am "taking".
My act of piracy does not "very literally" cause any amount of money to be removed from the IP owner. And if the poster meant to invoke the more colloquial form of literally, they damn well shouldn't have qualified it with "very."