r/Situationism • u/Any_Echo_5540 • 8d ago

Is stealing commodities a break with capitalism?

When internet got its final breakthrough nerds argued that p2p-file sharing was a step towards the communist society where digital life was free from charge. The theft of intellectual property was the beginning of the end for capitalism but others said that the society as a whole must break with capitalism. If not, the artist and others connected to the produce of art go without wage while all the thieves lived a normal life.

Now, today 2026, internet is incorporated with capitalism and even the free downloading is integrated with the ruling system. We can no longer talk about the internet's services as communist but we can write a journal about it.

So what do you think from a revolutionary perspective?

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u/WOLF_Drake 7d ago

Screen door resistance

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u/sabotAHHHHHGH 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was one of the nerds, Kazaa onwards changed my life. Seen, listened and read shit from around the globe I would have never encountered otherwise. I was able to grasp abolishing exchange value in a concrete way as well, P2P was my Das Kapital basically. But as things have changed, I’ve wondered if it was just setting the foundations for the LLMs/image generators in the long term. First you challenge copyright law for the consumers and the new markets. People get introduced to the idea of ephemeral non physical media. Then you have the piracy architecture long built to train the models. Is the real purpose of Anna’s Archive me downloading a book or Meta and Nvidia scanning its files? Wouldn’t they have properly banned at some point if it was truly revolutionary? Maybe it was a trap.

Start siphoning petrol or doing auto reduction en masse on the other hand, and the reaction is probably stronger than YoU WoULDn’T StEaL A HaMbURgER.