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"I wanted to buy copy a famous painting from the museum for the market price but they did not agree to sell it to me because they don't ship to my state. So I d
by 6d6b73 10y ago
"I wanted to buy copy a famous painting from the museum for the market price but they did not agree to sell it to me because they don't ship to my state. So I drove there and took it when nobody was watching. How is that not a theft?"
That's pretty much what it boils down to.
- Wildgoose 10y agoDon't be ridiculous. A better analogy would be that the museum sold JPEGs of a work of art you wanted to use as a desktop background, but refused to sell one to a different state. So instead you downloaded a copy of the photograph.
- 6d6b73 10y agoAnd you think JPEGS are free? It takes hardware, software and some skills. Someone needs to spend time creating them. They have the right to refuse to sell you whatever they created. That refusal does not negate their right to their work.
- Wildgoose 10y agoYou're still missing the point. They refused my money. They were happy for me to buy the work second-hand and ship it at great expense (and environmental damage) across the world to my home where I could have then scanned it into an electronic format. All with NO further recompense for the author. All I wanted to do was pay the author for their work in return for a downloaded copy of the next volume, just like I had bought the first volume, and just like they were happily selling it to other people. Instead I was redlined on the basis of my nationality.
- norea-armozel 10y agoNope, your logic fails on all counts.