The other answers have already been helpful, so I wanted to ask, why do you have/want a video collection? Can’t you just delete it and download it again once you want to watch it again?

Meh, the article mostly argues semantics. Sure “intellectual property” is a loaded phrase, but what is meant by the layperson is just “I made it, I should profit from it”, i.e. copyright. We’re not talking about massive corporations here and hindering right-to-repair, I’m talking to a guy who made something useful (likely software or music or whatever creative) and wants to sell it.

I agree that talking about it vaguely is not super useful, but this is just a small casual discussion forum, not some legal debate.

Stealing intellectual property is only a problem because your survival is not guaranteed without it. If you could live a comfortable life no matter what, it would be much better for the whole of humanity if your current IP was simply available to everyone.

Just imagine if all the duplicate work from competition immediately disappeared and instead everyone in whatever field just shared their insights and built on each other’s work.

Of course, that only works once everyone’s survival is not dependent on this IP concept anymore. But it should be clear that in an utopian society, IP is just stupid.

Just fyi, Mullvad doesn’t have port forwarding. That means you rely on other people that do have port forwarding to be able to connect to anything. At least one side has to have an open port. Theoretically, if everyone used Mullvad, torrenting would not work anymore.

No, we haven’t. There are several good alternatives.

Clothing (pants) is very much not natural and indeed only enforced by society. If one knows about various indigenous people around the world, one knows pants are not universal.

I actually, in this heat, would love not to have to wear pants or anything really. I’m naked at home all the time. However, if I went outside it’d be indecent.

The problem is not doing it, the problem is feeding an AI generated text here.

When I pirate something, I have no clue what company or service it is from. How is it giving them a platform?

It does. I’ve been using it as my secrettool for quite a while instead of kwallet in KDE kwin wayland.