• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The Pirate Bay is on the open web.

    So I guess it’s perfectly okay to pirate Microsoft software.

    And if torrents don’t count, I guarantee you that there are public websites with direct downloads of pirated Microsoft software that have yet to be taken down.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      The torrents are on the web but the content itself is not on the web, only BitTorrent.

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    5 months ago

    Man, fuck Microsoft in particular. They’ve gone from fighting open-source tooth and nail, to now declaring that of course everyone else opened up their stuff and they’re allowed to take it.

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    5 months ago

    In turn, if I’d find a copy of Windows, Office, or whatever Microsoft software on the net, I’d be free to use it in amy way I like? Because that is what he is basically arguing.

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    5 months ago

    Now robot scrapers are “thieves” for looking at your jpeg? Foh lol

    Training isn’t stealing. Just like Google scrapers which are the same thing aren’t stealing.

  • Kaity@leminal.space
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    5 months ago

    It was on the shelf out in the open officer. There wasn’t a lock on it and that means it is free.