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Originally Posted by elaniel
So under your definition, someone out of work can go into a shop and take a CD because they can't afford it?
Just because you can not afford something does not make it right to "copy" something.
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No, you completely misunderstood the whole point of my post.
If you steal a physical copy of something it is gone, the person you take it from loses something. It's stealing if you get it
while someone else loses it(may it the physical copy or money). When downloading you get a
copy, the owner of the original(avex in this case) only loses something if you otherwise would have bought it, however if you don't have enough money you wouldn't have bought it -> aves doesn't lose anything -> you do
not steal. You copy. It's obviously not legal but calling it stealing is plain wrong. Nobody is hurt in that scenario, nobody loses anything.
That said, like I pointed out in my original post, I do NOT support piracy overall. I do
not support it if you do it because you don't want to pay. I support it if you don't have enough money to pay since no one is harmed that way.
Someone earning a few hundred dollars a month while having to pay rent and stuff can't easily afford the clip box, he would NOT buy it either way, him downloading it would not be stealing and it would not harm anyone.
While someone with a well-paid job who has enough money and simply doesn't want to pay if he can download it for free does steal since he otherwise(if downloading was not possible) would have probably bought it.
That's the difference. If someone loses something(be it the physical copy or money) it is stealing. However that is not always the case for downloading and that's the important thing about it.
There is no logical argument that something harming noone is immoral. Unfortunately big parts of our society are ****ed up enough from centuries of religion to believe that things that do not harm anyone can be "wrong" by default without thinking about it themselves.