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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

"If Rome possessed the power to feed everyone amply at no greater cost than that of Caesar's own table, the people would sweep Caesar violently away if anyone were left to starve."

Eben Moglen

I think imposing artificial scarcity on art, information, and tools; and rationing based on those with the ability to pay is immoral. I mean sure, most art that people pirate is just empty entertainment. But imposing artificial scarcity on tools (software such as OSs, CAD, productivity software, etc), news, and academic papers behind expensive licenses that many cannot afford to pay is objectively immoral. If piracy did not exist, I am positive the world would be without many of the technological advances we have today.

[–] gjghkk 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As a Muslim, it is already forbidden to implement artificial scarcity. So as a Muslim, it's not an opinion, but objectively wrong, because God said that it is wrong.

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

Genuinely curious about that now...

[–] gjghkk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I will warn you: We believe that there is good and wrong, and not humans, but Allah (god) is the one who created us and Allah is the one who decides what is good and what is wrong.

So basically what is wrong and what is right is pre-decided by Allah, so we don't have to decide if something is bad or not, because Allah already gave the info of that to us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I was interested about the artificial scarcity part

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