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How is this different from any other theft? I don’t respect the bakery down the road and will steal their products. Yes it’s protected by laws, but I don’t respect that either. It’…

> when the copyrighted digital work is not made artificially scarce, it is worthless. If an artist digitally releases a music album for free - it's worthless? Meaning it has no val…

Do you completely refuse to accept that there is such a phenomenon as mental illness? If you are of a sound mind and want to starve to death - have it your way. If you are a schizo…

Your position somehow completely ignores the cost of... producing the content itself. It might come as a surprise, but people who write books, make music, film movies all have expe…

So has ignorance.

I don't have a link to a scientific paper. But if you want to sum the losses yourself, here is something to start with: 1. Last Sunday I streamed a movie called Stutz (2022) for fr…

Have you ever faced a person cutting their veins in a psychotic episode? I have. Saying that it's OK to let them bleed out because they refuse help is an asinine, inhumane position…

The Airbnb argument does not hold water. Would someone love to live for free in a vacant Airbnb? Yes. Almost everyone would. So let's then give everyone free housing forever, what …

To me, this conviction to just let mentally ill people roam the streets is enabling, not compassionate. A truly compassionate view cares about well-being, not just agency. Would yo…

That is not what the article is about. It's about hospitalizing people who are severely mentally ill. How is that not a medical emergency?

I don't know if it's some extreme libertarianism or just pure lack of compassion. Some people need - and deserve - help. "Your body, your choice" is just an all-around horrible arg…

So no books, movies, music - anything that can be duplicated digitally - has value as a thing to be sold? I am sorry, I am not sure this is a genuine argument. Why does digital dup…

That's a completely different question, of course. But to answer: on many occasions I am not committed to a particular movie, so just watch it in the background for a while and mig…

Do you think at least some of the content that was shared would have been purchased otherwise? We can't measure the impact directly but it's odd to assume that pirating content som…

(sorry, posted this comment in the wrong thread by accident) Do you think at least some of the content that was shared would have been purchased otherwise? We can't measure the imp…

In sorry about the situation you are in. Can we agree that different people have different urgent needs? I agree with you that you need a house. A mentally unstable person who can’…

I like your optimism and on my best days I mostly agree with it. My skepticism is rooted in two phenomena: 1. Our society seems to be unable to address criminal behavior at the cur…

I don't know. On the one hand - yes, let's stop patronizing people. On the other hand we need to be responsible. There are many vulnerable people, they can't just get their shit to…

I might sound too antagonistic on this topic, that's not my intention. F-droid is a great app repository, no problem with them whatsoever. I am highlighting the fact that a purist …

It's an interesting argument even though I don't fully agree with it. The Tank Man analogy is that even though the Chinese person has not actively pursued this topic, they experien…

To be clear, F-droid is an excellent piece of software. It's small and is used mostly by quite technical people, so it's not as an attractive target as Apple's AppStore. But that's…

Any local alternative app store is a far easier target for government censorship. Look at Chinese and Russian Android app stores. They comply immediately, often without even public…

I would love to agree with this argument. And maybe 5 years ago I would have. But so far crypto has not demonstrated that it can really solve the issues you are listing. Yes, it ca…

In absolutist, idealistic terms - yes, everyone should be 100% responsible for who they trust, should have no limits on this choice. In practical terms what we get is "Banks are no…