Keep huffing that copium. Everyone knows piracy is at best a morally grey area in our modern capitalist society. Some of us accept that and pirate anyway, others need to hide behind word definitions because they can’t live with the idea that they’re not the good guy.

Lol, love hearing this moronic argument. If you had the magical ability to point at an object and clone it out of thin air, that also wouldn’t be stealing.

If I pointed at a Rolex on a person’s wrist and magically an identical copy of that watch appeared on my wrist, nothing was stolen, because nobody was deprived of anything. The net amount of that thing in the world only increased, and nobody was dispossessed of their property.

I hope you’ve never walked past a concert venue and heard some of the music being performed without being in the venue, otherwise by your logic, you are literally a thief who robbed that artist of their intellectual property and should be arrested and imprisoned. At the very least, made to pay restitution to the artist and record company for the cost of the music you “stole” from them.

Miss me with that bullshit.

I’m not OP, but i think you’re being intentionally simple-minded here…

So following your argument further, if we all did this no one would produce anything because they’d never get paid.

Then what?

The point is, there’s hundreds of hours of work in most things. What you’re saying makes sense if we’re taking about a shitty NFT that was ‘someone drawing their cat in MS Paint’, but an album or movie that involved many people and lots of labour is different because they deserve to be compensated for their work.

Back to your example, no one measurers songs heard in the seconds they were experienced and seeing the performance is probably the key part if we were breaking it down… Waking past a venue isn’t taking in the show (sneaking in and getting the full experience would be. Admittedly, of it’s an outdoor venue the example gets muddier!)

So, what I’m arguing, is that what’s morally wrong about piracy is not fairly compensating the workers that produced it. They deserve their time and expertise to be traded for (sorry, in not finding the words I’m wanting…) and that’s where the theft lies

So following your argument further, if we all did this no one would produce anything because they’d never get paid.

You are literally saying this on Lemmy. It is developed for free and the servers are hosted by others for free. Most open source projects work this way. People are fully capable of making things because they want to. Not everything needs to be profit-driven.