stof said:
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. |
My point here wasn't in relating TV theft to software theft, but to the idea that piracy is somehow a right for 3rd world countries simply because they can't afford it. That should be apparent from my last sentance, "Just because I can't afford what I want doesn't make it right to take it."
