• webadict@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Is pirating stealing? Nothing was taken from YouTube. You could say it’s unauthorized access, or unauthorized duplication of data, but none of that leaves YouTube down any data.

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        1 year ago

        In their defense, it costs bandwidth to Google.

        In my attack, fuck Google. Costing them money is a good thing. They are literally trying to lock down corporate control over the Internet.

        • Richard@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Right. It really pains me to see how many people simply buy into nonsensical corporate propaganda. This is a matter of our freedom and our democracy, and every single day that the mega-corporations are expanding their hold of our information retrieval and processing, we get one step closer to not being able to control what’s happening to us anymore, to tell reality apart from deception, to innovate, to build our own futures. 1984 is such a good piece of literature because it is shocking, but I find it even more shocking that we are accelerating ever more into such a future.