rootCompute on Nostr: If I can go to the library and borrow a book or piece of media for free to return on ...
If I can go to the library and borrow a book or piece of media for free to return on later date, what's the functional difference between that and downloading that piece of media from a pirate site? I mean, support your local library and all that, but there's something funny to me about how we split hairs between borrowing and stealing when it comes to a format that can reproduce infinite copies of itself
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