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Why is it frowned upon here to 'steal' content from reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If anything, shouldn't it be encouraged, and even automated? I'm including even the 'old' stuff from reddit here. Reddit shouldn't be the absolute owner of the content submitted by users. When I migrated here, it wasn't because of me being against reddit users, but being against reddit the company. Copying the content here actually hurts the company in sense that they don't get to then gatekeep the crowdsourced content.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I never thought I’d experience the “you wouldn’t download a car” argument personally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I guess my example is that, isn't it? 😅 My point is that you generally don't have to remind people of your rights in order to enjoy them, and that's true for copyright. Pick your own favorite right and replace my car analogy with it.

Now, I just need to find a way to compare cross-posting Reddit content without permission to the Nazis and describe Lemmy as "the Uber of ," and I'll have achieved the triple crown of cliche analogies. 😆

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Lol. One recommendation: when arguing about copyright, don’t substitute physical goods for material that can be easily duplicated when making an argument. Substitute a patent? Sure. Substitute a different type of copyrighted (or copyright adjacent) material? Sure. But it’s really hard to get past the fundamental difference between stealing a physical good — in which the person you’re stealing from no longer has the item — and copying a good, in which now both people have the item.

To compare stealing a car with stealing digital goods, it would go more like: how would you feel if someone snuck over and built an exact duplicate of your car and drove it away?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

One recommendation: when you tell people how they “should” talk, you sound like a jackass

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