dimpy.handa
Dimpy Handa
'm posting this because this is (hopefully) the first place I've had the opportunity to discuss this topic in detail, rather than hearing the same parroted responses from either side. I'd like to take the chance to present a few opinions of mine to people who might consider and critique them, rather than simply agreeing or disagreeing based on their previous stance on the issue. Please note that I use the term piracy for lack of a truer term that is just as concise, not because I feel it is a just term.
First of all, if you have something, and I take it from you, and then you no longer have it, I have stolen from you. If, after what I have done, you still have the same thing you had before, in the same quantity and maybe even condition, then I have not stolen from you. I feel that it's extremely silly to say piracy is stealing.
If I had a machine, my own machine, that could duplicate bread at no additional cost to its maker, would people as a whole (in other words, people other than those who are losing profit) complain that I am stealing from the company who originally made the bread? No. People would call me a hero and sing my praises for sharing something with the world. The example of bread obviously has the advantage of saving millions of lives, but it'd work with almost anything, really (energy, vehicles, etc. stuff that simply makes life easier) provided there were no catastrophic side effects (like radiation from nuclear energy or waste from vehicles).
First of all, if you have something, and I take it from you, and then you no longer have it, I have stolen from you. If, after what I have done, you still have the same thing you had before, in the same quantity and maybe even condition, then I have not stolen from you. I feel that it's extremely silly to say piracy is stealing.
If I had a machine, my own machine, that could duplicate bread at no additional cost to its maker, would people as a whole (in other words, people other than those who are losing profit) complain that I am stealing from the company who originally made the bread? No. People would call me a hero and sing my praises for sharing something with the world. The example of bread obviously has the advantage of saving millions of lives, but it'd work with almost anything, really (energy, vehicles, etc. stuff that simply makes life easier) provided there were no catastrophic side effects (like radiation from nuclear energy or waste from vehicles).