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Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web by warkdarrior on Sunday October 27, 2024 @07:49PM (#41966622)
Not all of us agree that artists should charge for their products.
Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web by bdhdbebebeb on Sunday October 27, 2024 @09:02PM (#41966943)
Not everyone agrees supermarkets should charge for groceries.
Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web by gverrilla on Monday October 28, 2024 @12:36AM (#41967913)
Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web by bdhdbebebeb on Monday October 28, 2024 @01:37AM (#41968112)
I love Spain. They know how to do anarchy.
Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web by hiatus on Monday October 28, 2024 @10:39AM (#41971478)
It is interesting that the rebellion against consumer capitalism is more consumption.
Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web by Gormo on Monday October 28, 2024 @08:20AM (#41970342)
Most people do, since groceries are physical, rival goods to which natural property rights apply. But if it were possible to make copies of groceries while leaving the originals intact, far fewer people would argue against that on the same grounds. They might make other, unrelated arguments against copying, but moral principles applicable to physical property wouldn't be relevant.
Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web by zaptheimpaler on Sunday October 27, 2024 @09:23PM (#41967035)
That gives you the right to be an artist and not charge for your own products, not the right to steal from other artists who have differing beliefs.
Re:You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web by Gormo on Monday October 28, 2024 @08:18AM (#41970334)
There are reasonable moral arguments against copyright infringement, but the false equivocation with stealing is not one of them.

The same moral principles that argue against depriving people of natural property they already own do not imply further arguments against reducing sales opportunities for non-rival goods for which scarcity has been artificially established via positive law. Other, unrelated principles, can make for compelling arguments, but not the same ones.