Re: His (her) Master's Voice
"The crimes aren't the same though are they?
If i steal a warehouse of cd's and dvd's they're gone, i nicked em and made a profit selling em. I have deprived someone of real things.
If I copy a mates mp3 via bluetooth on my device, no one has lost out.
I wouldn't have bought it anyway, so no loss of sale."
But the actual physical CDs and DVDs cost pennies, they only have value because of what's on them. If I steal them and sell them only to people who promise me that they wouldn't have bought the full-price versions of the films, I've only really stolen a few pence worth of plastic and paper.
That's bollocks of course. The valuable thing is the information so whether you steal it physically or copy it unlawfully, you're doing the same amount of harm. You're right that copyright infringement is not theft but you're wrong to think that it's morally any different to legging it out of HMV with a DVD.
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AC because, despite my moralising, I'm torrenting GoT right now!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
