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In your example, the grocery store will do inventory and discovery they are short 1 ice cream sandwich and 1 mountain dew. They write the cost of those goods o

In your example, the grocery store will do inventory and discovery they are short 1 ice cream sandwich and 1 mountain dew. They write the cost of those goods off as shrinkage/stolen goods. What exactly is warner bros missing at the end of the month when they do inventory? What item comes up 1 short when they go to grab it, because 1 person downloaded a copy? What do they write off on the balance sheet as shrinkage? The answer is nothing, because copyright infringement is not theft. They may have commonalities, but they are separate and distinct. If they were the same there would be no legal definition for copyright infringement, because it would be already covered under existing theft laws. I wish people would retire this ridiculous argument. There are legitimate arguments to be made against piracy without having to misrepresent the issue.

chasing 11y ago
> They may have commonalities, but they are separate and distinct. Yeah, that's how comparisons work. Read my comment again in light of the commonalities, not the differences. seer: "It's so much easier if you break the law." chasing: "Everything's so much easier if you break the law!" I was commenting on seer's statement by extending what I considered to be flawed logic into a situation that would expose the flaw. I could've chosen a completely unrelated crime: "I feel so sad for people forced to not drug women to sleep with them - it must be such a chore to have to get them to consent to sex." See, I'm not comparing the act of pirating a movie to rape. They're obviously very different. One is heinous and one's a fairly minor transgression, all things considered. I am commenting on the absurdity of comparing the "user experience" of doing something legally instead of breaking the law.
- skygazer 11y ago
  It doesn't strike me as absurd at all. For various reasons, I prefer not to "jay walk," but when the cross walks are miles away, and I judge I can safely cross without them, I'll follow the what seems the most pragmatic approach to get to the other side.

chasing 11y ago

> They may have commonalities, but they are separate and distinct. Yeah, that's how comparisons work. Read my comment again in light of the commonalities, not the differences. seer: "It's so much easier if you break the law." chasing: "Everything's so much easier if you break the law!" I was commenting on seer's statement by extending what I considered to be flawed logic into a situation that would expose the flaw. I could've chosen a completely unrelated crime: "I feel so sad for people forced to not drug women to sleep with them - it must be such a chore to have to get them to consent to sex." See, I'm not comparing the act of pirating a movie to rape. They're obviously very different. One is heinous and one's a fairly minor transgression, all things considered. I am commenting on the absurdity of comparing the "user experience" of doing something legally instead of breaking the law.

skygazer 11y ago
It doesn't strike me as absurd at all. For various reasons, I prefer not to "jay walk," but when the cross walks are miles away, and I judge I can safely cross without them, I'll follow the what seems the most pragmatic approach to get to the other side.