If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing
Now, this kinda sorta makes sense, but also it doesn’t. I’ve been seeing this quote more and more online and it irks me a little. It’s just, well, wrong. When you pay for Netflix, you take out a subscription. You pay to receive something, and receive it you do. You get access to something. It’s like a newspaper. You subscribe and pay a fee and every morning, a newspaper shows up on your lawn, in your mailbox, or wherever they put it for you. You don’t own the newspaper’s office. Ok, you own the paper you got delivered, but it’s value fades after a day. The news is old and the thing is useless. ...