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You did it with a faulty analogy. The analogy compared a permanent physical harm to an indefinite harm. Two things have to be analogous to fit an analogy.

• the-cakeboss 15y ago
  The argument he was responding to was unsound. The parent comment attempted to refute the claim that piracy is a legitimate problem by pointing out the ease at which it is done. Jayzee's analogy was never meant to compare shooting someone with sharing a song in terms of severity. Rather, it was demonstrating how flawed that line of thinking is.
  • nitrogen 15y ago
    The line of thinking isn't necessarily flawed. Digital copying is fundamentally different from any act that can be performed in the physical world, and no combination of analogies can ever do justice to that fact. Some of us who grew up in the digital world, and consider ourselves "citizens" thereof, want to see it allowed to develop independently of the arbitrary restrictions of the physical and political world. Regardless of the fact that servers and networks exist in physical locations, the actual subjective experience of using the Internet is like being in another place entirely, where those physical locations and borders cease to exist entirely.