PlayStation Users Frustrated After Getting Permanently Suspended Without Warning::Tons of PlayStation accounts have been abruptly suspended.

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    10 months ago

    Boats, murder and theft never had much to do with unauthorised copying. The music industry somehow convinced people to use a word with negative connotation to justify ruining people’s lives for downloading songs.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      Oyster pirates in the 19th century would land surrepititiously onto beaches at night and harvest oysters without license. It is from this use that media piracy emerged. Pirated oysters typically meant cheaper oysters at market so the resell and consumer sectors benefitted while the beach owners lost revenue.

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        10 months ago

        Not sure if I’ve heard that suggested origin before, but it’s still disingenuous propaganda. Electronic media is fundamentally different concept where the “resource” is practically infinate.