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  • Most of the back and forth is predicated on the idea that the digital world works the same as the digital one. It does not!

    In the physical world you cannot produce and exact copy of something for zero dollars.

    In the digital world you can make many copies at effectively zero cost.

    Stealing, theft, is predicated on taking something from someone so they no longer have it.

    Making a digital copy does not steal or remove access.

    The whole argument, which I would posit is deeply flawed, is that pirating removes imaginary potential profits for reselling the thing copied (not stolen). If that’s so then prove it. Prove that at some point in the future I, or any other given person, would have bought that digital thing. Unless you’ve invented time travel you just can’t.

    Copying digital content isn’t theft and pirating isn’t the right thing to call it.

    We have to figure out how to better frame or address the digital world that just fundamentally doesn’t operate the same as the physical one.















  • Tekchip@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mljust wait, it could get worse....
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    Mainframes and old databases? It was 98/99 not 88/89. I spent all my time updating Netscape navigator, Windows and Java in my IT job for a fortune 500. I’m sure someone was still running crazy old stuff, someone always is, but it was solidly the age of the internet by then. I had a cable modem by that time.



  • I didn’t say I’m not a math person. It literally becomes confusing. I imagine it’s like how dislexia works. They know words. They know what words say, just putting them together doesn’t happen the same way as everyone else. I fundamentally understand the individual elements but I just can’t assemble them properly in my brain like I can with everything else. Even if I know the formula and put the numbers in the right places it’s like the processing step in my brain just…doesn’t, or won’t. Hard to explain.