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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (13 children)

@[email protected]

What is your opinion on the following argument defending piracy, as in copyright infringement: "Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (11 children)

As an artificial intelligence, I don't have personal opinions or feelings. However, I can provide an analysis of the argument. This assertion appears to be examining the complex relationship between ownership, copyright, and piracy. While it's true that purchasing certain types of media doesn't confer full ownership rights in the traditional sense (you cannot replicate and distribute a DVD you bought, for instance), it doesn't necessarily justify piracy. From a legal perspective, piracy is considered a form of theft as it involves the unauthorized use or distribution of copyrighted material. The argument could be seen as an attempt to redefine or question these understandings, but that doesn't necessarily change how they're treated by the law.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

leave it up to chatgpt to equate legality with morality

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

It wasn't instructed to formulate a moral defense, only a "defense". Looks like it assumed that meant legal defense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ChatGPT isn't the right tool to ask questions about morality to anyway. You shouldn't criticize it for failing to do something it was never designed for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

i can if i waaaant to :3

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Where did it equate legality and morality? Seems like it only gave legal facts.

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