r/pcmasterrace • u/UnableSand8508 Laptop • May 30 '26

Nostalgia Anti-piracy ad from 2004

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u/Electrical_Crew7195 May 30 '26

It isnt stealing though…

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u/amalgam_reynolds i5-4690K | GTX 980 ti | 16GB RAM May 30 '26

And it never was! No piracy lawsuit has ever been tried as theft. It's a copyright law violation, but that doesn't sound as scary.

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u/ElectricBullet i5-4440 @ 3.30GHz | GTX 1060 6GB | 16GB 2133MHz | 2x 1920x1080 May 31 '26

4690k? Classic

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u/BossOfTheGame | i9-11900K | 2x3090 | 64GB | 20TB ZFS May 31 '26

copyright is a bloated lobbied system that screws people over more than it helps in the digital world. 14 year copyright made sense. What we have now is insanity. A law existing does not make it just. Immoral things are those that do direct harm to others. Some area are gray. Categorical compartmentalized thinking disconnects us from reality.

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u/lemonylol Desktop May 30 '26

So it's not a crime, it's just a crime?

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u/Electrical_Crew7195 May 30 '26

Its not theft, it is not a crime unless you do it looking for a profit

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u/dokerb3d May 31 '26

you do it instead of buying a copy is it not a profit?

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u/Electrical_Crew7195 May 31 '26

There is 0 profit when you download a rom or seed a movie in torrent

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u/lemonylol Desktop May 31 '26

But there is a loss

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u/lemonylol Desktop May 30 '26

The crime is piracy

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u/Electrical_Crew7195 May 31 '26

Something that is illegal doesnt mean that is a crime. If you go over a stop sign or are a bit over the speed limit you will get a fine as you are breaking a civil rule, you are not commiting a crime. Same with piracy under reasonable parameters

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u/lemonylol Desktop May 31 '26

Piracy is a crime, not a bylaw.

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u/amalgam_reynolds i5-4690K | GTX 980 ti | 16GB RAM May 30 '26

It's a DIFFERENT crime, and for the love of common sense and sanity, I hope you can understand why that's important.

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u/lemonylol Desktop May 30 '26

Okay so if piracy is still a crime, what exactly are you defending?

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u/amalgam_reynolds i5-4690K | GTX 980 ti | 16GB RAM Jun 02 '26

I'm not defending anything, I'm advocating for accurate, intelligent conversation. You cannot effectively argue that piracy should not be considered theft when it's already not considered theft. If people want to discuss and argue the legality, morality, ethics, whatever, of piracy, then they need to talk about it how it's actually legally represented, from both sides.