> If you have the audacity to believe sending an email to a pop sensation is
going to change anything, then there's a fundamental misunderstanding on your
part.
If you have the audacity to believe that pirating stuff will accomplish more
regarding changing the world into a better place, that's a funamental
misunderstanding on your part.
> You keep using a classic form of circular logic, GNUser - you assert that
piracy is bad because it is illegal (or that is equivalent to stealing), and
because it is illegal it means it's bad.
I never explained things that way, so that's false. It was never my opinion
either.
> You didn't refute any of my points, which suggests that you either don't
understand what I'm saying (which is a failure on my part), or you're just
being obtuse.
Your points have already been made by other people and I totally dismantled
them on those comments. Anyway, I will explain it to you too.
Person A invests 100$ to produce music and burn 100 CDs and pay taxes, all of
that. He will probably sell at least 85 CDs, he has many people saying they
want his CD, he played it live and many people wanted to buy before he even
had the CDs ready. He is selling each one for 20$. If you buy the first CD
and start pirating it right away, you will make it so that no one will buy
the other ones. He ends up selling let's say 5 CDs.
So, from an initial investment of 100$ to a probable gain of 20x~85 = 1700$,
which would make it 1700-100= 1600. We go to an investment of 100$ to a gain
of 20x~5= 100$. In the end 100-100= 0$.
Sure you did not take away his copies, you were correct in that, sharing
won't take someone elses copies away. BUT it will render them useless and
make the person who invested in it lose his investment.
Unless you are against ANY kind of business where people actually have to pay
for something (what, you don't pay for food? you steal it?), wanting musics
and books and movies to be free of charge is not a valid point.
> I'd like to see a source or citation backing this up, because it sounds
like bullshit to me.
Go to a piracy website, a big one. Now, disable all adblocks, script blocks,
all of that... You will see that there are at least a dozen ads and even
worse scripts running, images and pop ups appearing everywhere.... What, you
think those are there to make you happy? No, they are there because they mean
MONEY!
