Piracy not theft because its a copy..

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superchunk said:

BladeOfGod said:
i am sick of people bitching about piracy.

The averige payment in Brazil is about 220-230 dollars. And one guy from Brazil told me that games cost about 120 dollars there.(the new ones) So you except someone to spend more than half of his payment just to get one game??? You people need to understand that not everyone can afford to buy games even thought they HAVE a job.

My *net* monthly income is about $500 that I can spend any way I like. That $500 won't buy me the  new 46" HDTV I've been wanting because the tv's I want are around $1500. I can choose to save my net income for a while to buy that tv or I can choose to eat out, go to movies, and do many other activities with my children.

I keep choosing the activities and still have an older SDTV.

Just because I can't afford what I want doesn't make it right to take it. That is just stupid.

 

See, this is one of those twists of logic I'm talking about. Not the response to blade's post so much as you're again making the TV comparison. The whole point of the thread that YOU started was to address the notion of Piracy as theft even though you don't actually remove anything from anyone. But then you start compring it to a TV, which you actually have to steal from someones possession!

"I broke in to a business and stole their TV. now they don't have a TV" vs. "I downloaded a game. Now I have a game" Pretty big difference there.

 

Of course, your response to Blade's post raises a whole different can of worms. Poverty and different living standards be damned. How dare a poor brazillian have access to the entertainment of wealthy North Americans and Europeans!

All in all Superchunk. It's entertainment. Luxurious and superficial entertainment. The fact that a large industry has spread up around it doesn't suddenly make it an essential service or human right. Some people would rather put in the physical effort of downloading than the financial effort of purchasing. Whatever.  I don't see you making similarly enraged topics about equally immoral acts such as J-walking and not rewinding VHS rental tapes.