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cammikebrown | 6 months ago

The “download” catchphrase is a joke, it was originally “You wouldn’t steal a car”, which I’d argue is true for most people.

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PenguinCoder|6 months ago

Stealing a car deprives the owner of their product. Privacy does not. They still have access and ownership of it. But now, you do too.

theshackleford|6 months ago

> it was originally “You wouldn’t steal a car”, which I’d argue is true for most people.

Sure, but it's only true if you stretch the definition of what's occuring. If we stretched it in the other way, in that "stealing" a car in fact left the perfectly fine original right where you found it, the vast majority wouldnt think twice.