[QUOTE=Canned Induvidual;37535721]"Damages"[/QUOTE]
I really wish politics and anti-piracy organizations got this
stealing is the act of taking something away from someone, leaving them to not being able to have it in their possession
example: You have an iPod, I steal it from you without your consent, you do not have the iPod anymore
Pirating or copying is the act of making duplicates
example: You have an iPod, I copy it from you, we both have iPods and we can make more
I learnt that from this video
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4[/media]
I swear if we had everyone who was a "piracy is stealing" nutjob in a room with this playing they'd understand (hopefully)
not rocket science.
[editline]4th September 2012[/editline]
While I do support the notion of buying something to support someone, it's still stupid to crack down on people who pirate, the way to battle it is to make a better service
Still duplicating something illegaly does not make it "better" than stealing. Both are illegal and agains the law.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;37535851]I really wish politics and anti-piracy organizations got this
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They probably "get" it. But frankly they're not going to pass up the chance to earn a few thousand quick bucks out of decency.
They outright feed bullshit such as "we're having to lay off employee's because of OUR OWN PERSONAL financial losses." to win sympathy in such cases.
Their own personal pay (which ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions or even billions a year) takes a small (and easily withstandable) hit. And rather than deal with this loss of money which they'll never actually spend. They'd rather lay off an employee.
It's despicable how far they'd go just to get a bit more money, which they assume is success.
Carl Sagan put it best:
[QUOTE]Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.[/QUOTE]
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