[ SECRET POST #2330 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2330 ⌋

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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

If your buddy loans you a copy, you also never pay to see it.

Yes, the initial purchaser paid for it, but what is the real difference between being given an analog copy, or ripped digital copy? It really amounts to the same thing. The difference is purely psychological. Fact is person A paid for it, but person B,C an,D no longer did.

In both cases people might choose not to buy a copy anymore (or, actually be encouraged to buy one, because they want to own their own). That depends on the viewer, not the medium.

I do not see piracy as theft, because to me theft is actually taking something from a person. Is it illegal - yes. Am I therefore engaging in illegal activity - yes. Do I see it as on par with stealing a necklace - no.

You are still free to see it that way, but as I said downthread, to me it's much more akin to creating a replica of the original, like reverse engineering. Yup, under copyright laws that's still illegal, but it's not the same as taking the original (and in fact, this was pretty common in a lot of communist countries, still is in China up to a certain level).

Why is it so important to you people admit to something anyway?

Some of us simply feel that copyright laws as they are now have become outdated before they even good and well started. And before people start complaining about poor artists: it's actually pitiful how little revenue actually goes to the artist in this case. For writers it's 15 percent - if they're lucky. For musicians it's not much better. I honestly think there are and need to be better ways to support artists directly, instead of mostly just feeding publishers of production companies.