Piracy Vs Used

[kitler53]

SamuelRSmith said:

kitler53 said:
a pirated game is stolen.

a purchased game is your property.

If a purchased game is your property, should you be able to do what you want with it? Like, you know, chuck a rip of it onto a torrent site? You just said it was your property.

Theft isn't a thing in the digital world. It applies to the physical world because goods are scarce and when you have an apple, I can't have the same apple. You can give the apple, or we can trade for the apple, or I can steal it from you. Either way, I end up plus one apple, you end up minus one apple. This isn't true for digital and other non-scarce goods. When you and I trade ideas, we each have two ideas.

when you and i can trade apples and both have two apples i'll change my mind.  until then i firmly believe that the work i put into my computer to create the software a farmer wants to use is just as real and meaningful as the farmers work he put into creating an apple i want to eat.   in either case the consumption of the other's work without fair compensation is wrong, unjust, and theft.

if you don't believe in intellectual property then i sincerly hope you never have an great idea.  but with this sort of attitude towards intellecutal thought i'm guessing it's a safe bet you never will..