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Why is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is "losing a sale" and not getting the money, right?

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it will ultimately look like a copy, and each successive copy from that copy will look worse. This is of course true with forms of tape media and a lot of others. But it isn't true of digital media, where I could share a bit-for-bit copy of data that is absolutely identical to the original.

There is one exception: reposted memes, they are losing pixels more and more. /s

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Only because of incompetent people using lossy reproduction methods out of ignorance