PlayStation Users Frustrated After Getting Permanently Suspended Without Warning::Tons of PlayStation accounts have been abruptly suspended.
I assume they also lost access to their games. If so, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.
Piracy was never theft regardless.
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.
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.
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.
Sony has really gone off the rails this week.
(It may have always been off the rails and just making a lot of news.)
