LiamBox@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agofor some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square62linkfedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1181arrow-down1imagefor some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents.lemmy.mlLiamBox@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square62linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremoody@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·2 days ago After all what is a digital file if not a bunch of writing that instructs the computer to draw pixels on your screen. A digital file is just a number, potentially a very big number, but that’s all it is.
minus-squaretatterdemalion@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·16 hours agoOh come on. What’s next? “Child pornography is just a really big number, after all.” “I didn’t murder anyone, I just rearranged some atoms. We’re all just really big collections of atoms after all.” If you remove enough semantic layers, you can make anything sound benign. I’m not anti-piracy, I just think these lines of argumentation are so flimsy as to be entirely worthless for the cause.
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 day agoTo be fair, that’s also like, all information
A digital file is just a number, potentially a very big number, but that’s all it is.
Oh come on. What’s next?
“Child pornography is just a really big number, after all.”
“I didn’t murder anyone, I just rearranged some atoms. We’re all just really big collections of atoms after all.”
If you remove enough semantic layers, you can make anything sound benign.
I’m not anti-piracy, I just think these lines of argumentation are so flimsy as to be entirely worthless for the cause.
To be fair, that’s also like, all information
I think that’s the point.