A poor clothing maker brings his goods to the local market. He thinks to himself "I hope that my products will sell today, for I have spent hours making them and my family is hungry." With a determined smile on his face, he enters the market and sets up his shop. Hoping that customers will come and buy his goods. A man comes up to him, and spits on the clothing maker's face, laughing to himself and staring at his products.
He then holds up the shirts that the man is selling, and duplicates them, so that he has a copy of the same exact shirt that the man spent so much time making. He then goes to the middle of the market and tosses the shirts in the street, for the greedy to grab up and run home with.
The man who made the shirts gets little to no money, and he goes home to a ugly family with no way to feed them.
This analogy works perfectly with piracy. You are worse than thieves.
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Anonymous2009-05-20 13:00
>>1
If someone discovered an even cheaper method of clothesmaking, what's the problem? Sure, a few ten thousand obsolete clothing makers will suffer from it, but 99,9999% of the world will benefit from having cheaper clothes. It's called progress and free market. Or do you want to go back to the middle ages when 95% of the population worked on farms?
Spitting on someone's face is not acceptable behavior though.
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Anonymous2009-05-20 13:13
So what you are saying; if we found a way to duplicate food, we shouldn't share it to help those who can't afford it(or won't buy it)? The backside would be people who would buy it, now gets it through sharing, but at least the ones who never had food; finally can eat, and from this our world prospers in a way we haven't anticipated!
Just to give an equally bad example as OP.
- Don't confuse the digital world with the real world.
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METAL !vGEARW5d2c2009-05-20 13:34
Lol.
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Anonymous2009-05-20 15:58
Information is nothing like physical property. Any analogy, law, or argument that makes that leap of assumption is deathly flawed.
Information is nothing like physical property. Any analogy, law, or argument that makes that leap of assumption is deathly flawed.
Information is nothing like physical property. Any analogy, law, or argument that makes that leap of assumption is deathly flawed.
Information is nothing like physical property. Any analogy, law, or argument that makes that leap of assumption is deathly flawed.
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Anonymous2009-05-21 17:16
So, what you're saying is that we shouldn't take anything from the greedy, selfish companies that try to fuck us over by charging as much as they possibly can for games that usually suck dick (but are well advertised) instead of actually trying the games out, and giving the money to those who deserve it?