101 points

Communists want to abolish private property.

Capitalists want to abolish personal property.

We are not the same.

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God this feels like such a no-brainer

Just gotta keep dumbing it down I guess

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The personal property / private property distinction really confuses some people for some reason. Granted, there are also a lot of people who are just assholes and act like clarifying the usage of the terms is just you trying to be “evasive” (I’ve gotten that response).

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I think it’s really simple to just say private capital vs. personal property. Gets across the most important issue that we mean by private property and it doesn’t come with so much rhetorical baggage.

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11 points

Yeah it’s kinda silly but I get it

I’ve tried to explain it to some people and their takeaways are incredible in a baffling way

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13 points

Dude, I am SO going to use this.

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91 points

I want people to own nothing because everything should be held in common for the public good

You want people to own nothing so that you can charge rent forever

We are not the same. Now face the wall

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31 points

We want to collectively own and manage the means of production to our benefit as a whole. Personal property is just that, and it’s yours. I like the vibe of this comment, anyhow. Lol

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65 points

This is the best argument for piracy.

I’d even say you can get to a pretty strong argument that it’s morally justifiable.

Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you’ve already paid for then for you to take something you didn’t pay for.

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38 points

I’d say stuff like this makes you morally obligated to pirate

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34 points

Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you’ve already paid for then for you to take something you didn’t pay for.

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Why is it any better for them to take something from you that you’ve already paid for then for you to take something you didn’t pay for.

Well you see they’re a giant corporation so they have rights and you don’t!

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The best argument is that I don’t give a shit whether it’s morally justifiable or not, i’ll never get in trouble with the law for it, i like getting free stuff and the only victims are corporations and fuck them

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Oh fully agree nobody should have to justify stealing from corporations it’s just hilarious that even the biggest bootlicking civility fetishist would have a hard time scolding somebody for this when the corporations are doing something worse by any objective observation.

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I think, in a capitalist society, people should be paid for their efforts.

Once we have, I think it’s okay for us to do what we have to do to retain access.

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I like to buy books so the author gets paid, then pirate it electronically for a searchable / drm free convenient experience.

I also did that with video games back when they were on cd-rom and required the disk to be in to play. I’d buy it, rip an iso of the cd and just use daemon tools instead of the physical disks. Still do that with movies sometimes.

I need to get set back up to torrent stuff with how much media is being pulled from streaming services. My kids were really upset when prodigy got dropped for no reason when we were half way through it.

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59 points

this is why I still buy discs

Uh… I would simply pirate the content wholesale.

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41 points

Buy discs, rip the contents, seed torrents to share with comrades worldwide (please do this, I just want a HQ copy of Footfalls from the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker soundtrack but I can’t find it anywhere)

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15 points

Here you go comrade

https://file.io/zcYWOkckRyM4

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14 points

THANK YOU, LETS FUCKING GO

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27 points

Somebody has to buy them to get the best quality rips.

I worry that if they stop selling Blu-Rays, there will be literally no way to get media in full uncompressed (minimally compressed? idk, just whatever makes Blu-Rays need like 50 GB) quality. No more BD Remuxes, just shitty WEBRips and maybe some WEB-DLs

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12 points

do purchased digital movies have high quality? Like the ones in the screenshot? Or on iTunes? zdon’t they have 4k digital movies?

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They might be 4k, but they don’t have the quality of Blu ray. They get compressed more to be easier to stream. Blu ray is usually the best quality the public gets to see (unless tapes or something leaks).

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7 points

https://tidal.com/sound-quality

That’s just one place to get HQ music. It’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s part of the solution.

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9 points

I doubt they’d ever do something like that for movies and tv. Blu-Ray quality can’t really be streamed and a download would be 20-50 GB which they probably just don’t want to offer or else they would have by now.

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19 points

Why not shoplift the discs and get the best of both worlds

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12 points

If I was a big more ballsy, I might.

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16 points

Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary, or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music.

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25 points

Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary

Hey some of them include those as extras!

or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music

okay true :sadness:

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14 points

You’ll never know the feeling of the Shrek dvd menu looping for over 10 hours straight because you’re too depressed to get off the couch and turn the tv off.

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8 points

Caillou did not age well, why is he still wearing pyjamas?

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7 points

The torrent uploader Tigole (from the release group QxR) usually includes special features and commentaries on their torrents. HeVK, who uploads a lot of great horror films, includes commentaries as well.

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2 points

That’s pretty cool

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54 points

Daily reminder that staring at a blank wall while your internal monologue slowly descends into gibbering madness remains free!*

*Blank wall sold separately

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38 points

Also it better be a privately owned wall or else a cops gonna harass you for loitering.

Cant be just standing around in public not spending money

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