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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 16 points 1 year ago

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