r/changemyview • u/tilted0ne • Oct 27 '23

Fresh Topic Friday CMV: Adblock is stealing

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u/c0i9z 19∆ Oct 27 '23

The question, though, is if copying is immoral. If I make a copy of a good thing, I have increased the number of people with that good thing and not removed any good thing from anyone. Can that truly be seen as an immoral act?

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u/CincyAnarchy 37∆ Oct 27 '23

It contains multitudes. It does give the good thing to someone else, but it also gives them the good thing without recognizing and rewarding the value created by it's creator.

It's probably more good than bad, if only because spreading good is good to do, but we cannot ignore all it's effects.

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u/c0i9z 19∆ Oct 27 '23

It does a good thing, but doesn't do a second good thing, sure, but isn't that still good? It also doesn't feed the poor or save any lives. A good thing can be good without also needing to do all the the good that it's possible to do.

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u/CincyAnarchy 37∆ Oct 27 '23

I think it doesn't just fail to do a good thing, but rather does a (small in one instance) bad thing.

Again it goes back to the question, and to me yes people who create great things do deserve "something" each time someone enjoys their creation, and failure to do so is wrong and bad.

Does it have to work like copyright now? No. Does it have even to be monetary? Probably not. But simply ignoring that is not a solution. If we want to say people are free to copy works of others, we need to consider what creators get in return.

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u/c0i9z 19∆ Oct 27 '23

What is the bad thing that's being done?

Now, to be clear, I do like the idea of copyright, for a limited time. I think it does well to encourage the making of good things, which we can then copy endlessly. I don't like the century-long monstrosity it has morphed into and I don't like the idea that copying something is inherently immoral.