If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

Re:If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing by Brian_K_White on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:34PM (#38588488)

Tried to follow the bluesky link with the source of the title quote... you can't view a bluesky post without making an account?

Strange way to attract adoption... I can't see that linked source, which is annoying, and that stink is slathered all over Bluesky in my head, ensuring that now I not only passively haven't been motivated to make an account yet, I am now actively repelled and probably never will. (This isn't a defense of xitter, I never had a twitter account either.)

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Re:If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing by chownie on Sunday December 10, 2023 @07:09AM (#38591006)

Bluesky is in closed invite-only beta but public posts/profiles are on the horizon now I believe — the last public announcement was about this in fact.

That aside – I hope this response is perhaps a little bit hyperbolic? You came across a 403 and now that site has a "stink slathered" over it?

If this is sincere you'd probably evaporate from rage trying to read US news orgs from a European country.

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Re:If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing by Brian_K_White on Sunday December 10, 2023 @04:54PM (#38595462)

I'd been hearing about bluesky enough that I thought it was operating normally.

I don't understand why you find that language hyperbolic. Yes, I find requiring an account to see a post to figuratively stink, as in, it makes me want to avoid. A choice to decline something is not rage, and I find it strange to try to paint it as such.

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