Pirate Bay Trial
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- shinpo0
But - juhls - it is not stealing and not the same thing outside of the internet. Think about it closely.
1. Someone buys a cd - actually pays for it.
2. They upload it to the interwebs.
3. Someone else downloads it.
4. Now there are two copies.So in actuality, the person who downloads it actually produces another copy thereby expanding the merchandise without have to pay people to produce a physical copy.
In essence they are helping the industry by cutting down the costs of production.
Here is another point. If you had a pound of pure gold and I had the power to replicate it would that be stealing from the earth? I mean the earth didn't make that gold and all I did was copy it, but you wouldn't complain about that would you?
Another un-sci fi example. We clone human embryos. They don't make new ones, but clone ones that are already there. Is that stealing? It is the same principle. Except a human life is more valuable than intellectual property - IMO. What about the sheep they cloned? There was already an original and yet they saw fit to make another copy of something that already existed.
The thing it boils down to MONEY. Always has, always will. Please download the documentary on infringement and intellectual property from here and then form an opinion. http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Par…
- Your argument reduces the value of the item in question. You don't give away source files for your work, do you?blaw