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[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It never applied to copyright infringement, which is often disparaged as "piracy."

[โ€“] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 9 months ago

Right, but I'm saying "piracy" has the same problem as "theft". Copyright infringement is even less related to the traditional meaning of piracy than it is to theft.