Communists want to abolish private property.
Capitalists want to abolish personal property.
We are not the same.
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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God this feels like such a no-brainer
Just gotta keep dumbing it down I guess
The personal property / private property distinction really confuses some people for some reason. Granted, there are also a lot of people who are just assholes and act like clarifying the usage of the terms is just you trying to be "evasive" (I've gotten that response).
Yeah it’s kinda silly but I get it
I’ve tried to explain it to some people and their takeaways are incredible in a baffling way
I think it's really simple to just say private capital vs. personal property. Gets across the most important issue that we mean by private property and it doesn't come with so much rhetorical baggage.
Dude, I am SO going to use this.
I want people to own nothing because everything should be held in common for the public good
You want people to own nothing so that you can charge rent forever
We are not the same. Now face the wall
We want to collectively own and manage the means of production to our benefit as a whole. Personal property is just that, and it's yours. I like the vibe of this comment, anyhow. Lol
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This is the best argument for piracy.
I'd even say you can get to a pretty strong argument that it's morally justifiable.
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.
I'd say stuff like this makes you morally obligated to pirate
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.
Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you've already paid for then for you to take something you didn't pay for.
Well you see they're a giant corporation so they have rights and you don't! 
The best argument is that I don't give a shit whether it's morally justifiable or not, i'll never get in trouble with the law for it, i like getting free stuff and the only victims are corporations and fuck them
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this is why I still buy discs
Uh... I would simply pirate the content wholesale.
Buy discs, rip the contents, seed torrents to share with comrades worldwide (please do this, I just want a HQ copy of Footfalls from the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker soundtrack but I can't find it anywhere)
Here you go comrade
THANK YOU, LETS FUCKING GO 
Look up Soulseek if you wish to get high quality music files, best P2P network for those
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Somebody has to buy them to get the best quality rips.
I worry that if they stop selling Blu-Rays, there will be literally no way to get media in full uncompressed (minimally compressed? idk, just whatever makes Blu-Rays need like 50 GB) quality. No more BD Remuxes, just shitty WEBRips and maybe some WEB-DLs
do purchased digital movies have high quality? Like the ones in the screenshot? Or on iTunes? zdon't they have 4k digital movies?
They might be 4k, but they don't have the quality of Blu ray. They get compressed more to be easier to stream. Blu ray is usually the best quality the public gets to see (unless tapes or something leaks).
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Why not shoplift the discs and get the best of both worlds
If I was a big more ballsy, I might.
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary, or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music.
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary
Hey some of them include those as extras!
or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music
okay true :sadness:
You’ll never know the feeling of the Shrek dvd menu looping for over 10 hours straight because you’re too depressed to get off the couch and turn the tv off.
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Daily reminder that staring at a blank wall while your internal monologue slowly descends into gibbering madness remains free!*
*Blank wall sold separately
Also it better be a privately owned wall or else a cops gonna harass you for loitering.
Cant be just standing around in public not spending money
Digital piracy is 100% always the morally correct thing to do.
Piracy is praxis
More people should learn computer literacy and how to pirate. The majority mostly buy old media over pirating because they don't have the skills to pirate. Bootlegs are huge in my country because of this.
Skills to pirate? I guess there is a certain level of know-how to avoid getting viruses
I've seen people struggle to do the most basic functions with their computer. They're absolutely skills to them.
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"We sincerely thank you for your continued support"
I know it's not the main thing to take issue with. But the insincerity of those 'sincere thanks' pisses me off to no end. Like they magically found a way to claim we support them by saying so. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining, at least be upfront about fucking me over.
I always fume with anger when some website captions their cookie banner "We care about your privacy". No you fucking don't and the dialog where you have to manually uncheck 10+ individual cookie types and also their fucking"legitimate interest" (no, there isn't any legitimate interest about my data).
And also when some company whose only purpose is to make money sends me e-mails beginning with "Hello, ". We aren't friends, we are business partners. If I'll write you about let's say a RMA, I won't address you "David" either. Keep it professional, will ya, ya smeee-heeee.
You see, there's just no possible way to show you these five paragraphs of plain text without seventeen tracking cookies attached
It's some "X rules to be an effective Y" bullshit. "Don't say 'sorry for taking your time' say 'thank you for your patience'"
Translation: "Fuck all of you who leave over this"
Class action popcorn time 
I'm interested to see where the courts land on the enforcibility of the terms and conditions stipulated at time of purchase. Should be interesting. For example, the purchase of the media is no doubt framed as a type of ownership given that you "buy" the item but no doubt it stipulated that your usage of purchased content is contingent upon a vast array of terms and conditions agreed to at time of purchase.
I still remember when I read the terms and conditions for my ps3 and discovered that I'm only renting it rather than own it; I don't own emulators either but at least those are free
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Your device> HDMI cable> £10 HDCP bypass box >HDMI cable> your recording/capture device. You've paid for it, you might as well make a copy. You will have to watch it through though to copy.
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
It never was stealing to begin with.
David Zaslav and his consequences
this feeels like a lawsuit; shouldnt sony or discovery issue refunds because of this.
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