• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    This is a specious analogy. e-books from libraries are already heavily controlled and are usually quite expensive to provide. Physical copies have their own inbuilt limits to distribution.

    You (and OP) are treating copyright like it’s some sort of hardline moral stance against consuming any media you haven’t directly paid for, when actually it’s more like a very long list of compromises to balance the conflicting requirements of creators’ needs to be compensated for their work versus society’s need to benefit from that work. This is why lending libraries, fair use etc are legal and piracy isn’t.

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      18 hours ago

      No, I’m providing a counter-example and rejecting the argument that only lost media entitles you to consume media for free.

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        16 hours ago

        And I’m saying that it’s a strawman, because that’s not the principle copyright law operated on in the first place.