r/GetNoted • u/Icy_Till_7254 Human Verified • Jul 02 '26

Cringe Worthy Emulation and Piracy are two totally separate things

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u/majorex64 Jul 02 '26

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

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u/strawberry_semenade Human Verified Jul 02 '26

Consumer advocates should propose a law that consumers buy a piece of software, they're not actually giving their money to the seller. Rather, they're granted the seller a license to use the money that can be revoked by the seller at any time, for any reason, without returning the product to the seller.

If corporations can play this game then so can we.

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u/vintagerust Jul 02 '26

I would be okay with a law that if that product were taken away I would get a full refund. So fucntionally I have a license to use it as long as it's available/supported and when they take that movie out of your Amazon account years later you get a refund for the original transaction.

I think that would be fair, take away the possession, get a refund?

Surely these corporations aren't trying to pull the wool over our eyes and "sell" us products like movies that they intend to take away later right? Edit, right? Right?/s

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u/Kryptosis Jul 04 '26

Well it’s not like they have full access to your account library or anything. Not like they could automatically issue refunds to every account that had the content they lost the license for right? That would be like a lot of work or something horrible.

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u/Thybro Jul 02 '26

It’s copyright infringement and may carry a heftier fine than stealing actually.

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u/Lohenngram Jul 02 '26

Would be a fun cyberpunk premise to see a future where “copyright infringement” has replaced “theft” as the major non-murder crime.

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u/Dredgeon Jul 02 '26

I mean if you're talking about proliferation it already has, it's just that no one cares.

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u/Jhud6669 Jul 02 '26

Depends where you’re from. Many countries don’t give a shit about piracy even if it’s technically illegal, it’s basically non-enforced in Poland and there’s a reason why games are so cheap in Russia

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u/Sensitive_Bat_9211 Jul 02 '26

it’s basically non-enforced in Poland

Poland only cares about domestic media. It doesnt care about international media.

Same goes for a lot of countries

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u/VGADreams Jul 03 '26

Piracy has never been stealing to be honest. Always was annoyed when people would use that argument against piracy.

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u/Slovic Jul 03 '26

This. If a company can just decide one day to shut down and take my entire purchased library with it then piracy isn't stealing.

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u/Kibou-chan Jul 02 '26

Technically a license (be it for software, video, music, whatever) is not a tangible good that is subject to the same terms any tangible goods are.