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beej71 on Jan 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

The "piracy==stealing" argument doesn't work here. I don't doubt you'd make a copy of your neighbor's pile of firewood if you coveted it.

CoastalCoder on Jan 20, 2024 [–]

Yeah, it was a flawed example for sure. All of the other examples I could think of at the time seemed like they'd be inflammatory in various ways.

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