Filesharing/Downloading Not wrong, just illegal in some places

[Alterego-X]

Munkeh111 said:

Alterego-X said:

Munkeh111 said:

But there is a very simple way to kill the idea that piracy is not bad. What if everyone stopped buying games and just pirated leaked copies? Then I am pretty sure the games industry would die, and I don't think anyone involved wants that

This is just a Straw Man argument,  you could do the same with anything else. 

Bicycles are bad because if everyone would exclusively travel by one, most people wouldn't ever arrive anywhere, plus they couldn't go across the ocean with one. 

Homosexuality is bad because if everyone would be gay humans would die out. 

Gaming is bad because if everyone would stop doing every other hobby to play games, people would have no real life. 

Cycling is only useful for short journeys

Homosexuality is actually a good thing because the world is overpopulated, and it is just a person's choice which doesn't harm others

The fact is, the idea is that piracy, is fundamentally not a bad thing, which I believe it is. It is saying it is okay not to pay for a product, because you could potentially borrow it from a friend instead... If you shouldn't have to pay, then why should other people?

My point was, that there is a difference between someone occasionally doing something, and everyone constantly doing it. 

Just because you showed an extremely exaggerated scenario and it wouldn't work, is no proof that a smaller scale version, using common sense and reasonability wouldn't work either. 

 

Just as their inability the cross the ocean won't make bicycles fundamentally bad and it doesn't prove that people shouldn't use them in the neighborhood,  similarly piracy's inability to be the sole source of products is not a proof that it shouldn't be casually used for downloading some stuff you are not that interested to pay for anyways.