The funny thing is after I got called a cop over the fight over IP piracy, my position is that shoplifting isn't nearly as big a deal in the grand scheme of things It's priced into the cost of running a store and has never forced some kind of sea change on how retail workshttps://twitter.com/Ettin64/status/1248809400342441985 …
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Precisely because I can't instantly shoplift all the art supplies from a craft store at once and distribute them to the whole country at once and make it so no one can ever make a living selling them again?
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Ironically, the Internet, by replacing brick-and-mortar retail with delivery services, has made shoplifting of the traditional kind much more difficult (and by so doing imposed a certain degree of burden on the poor) but people don't seem to really complain about that
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Anyway of course I don't think shoplifters as a general class of people are somehow heroes but the sheer amount of Internet rage over someone drawing a comic *depicting* shoplifting from when they were younger is just very... interesting to me
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IP law is a trade-off: a time-limited monopoly to promote risky, costly creative work in a capitalist system. The Disneys and the Stallmans both want to ignore different sides of that trade-off…
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