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Re:I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack by somat on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:57AM (#45136096)
Piracy is a real crime, I like to define it as theft of goods in transit. however it might be more specifically be the above in international free zones.

I always find it funny how people want to try and inflate one of the lesser crimes "copyright infringement" into one of the most heinous ones. Might as well call it software rape, it's just as accurate.

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Re:I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack by jansper39 on Friday September 05, 2025 @04:44AM (#45136380)
But the definition of theft is that it permanently deprives the owner of the object being thieved. Piracy might be a real crime but it doesn't match the definition of theft.

I'm not even sure what software rape is supposed to mean, but to me that seems to belittle the very real crime of rape.

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