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>I personally don't classify downloading other people's work as stealing, but building a huge business from it is totally different matter. You should though,
by gameshot911 15y ago
>I personally don't classify downloading other people's work as stealing, but building a huge business from it is totally different matter.
You should though, because the two are just different shades of the same color. Downloading other people's work = benefiting from their work without their permission. Building a huge business = benefiting from their work without their permission on a larger scale.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoIf I hear a song on the radio I'm benefiting from the artists work without paying. If I record a song off the radio then sell copies of it to other people I am doing something entirely different.
- robotresearcher 15y agoYou are paying for the ads that support the radio station when you buy any advertised product or donate to a political campaign that buys ads. The radio station pays to play the song. You are paying artists to listen to their music on the radio.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoAnd if I skip the ads or if the ads never influence me to buy anything, then what?
- runn1ng 15y agoYou can't do it ad absurdum, though, and have to put the line somewhere. That reminds me - in one Czech Onion-like fake news, there was an article about the architect union collecting money from every person who looks at buildings; the more buildings you see, the more you will pay. You just have to draw the line somewhere and I think that pirating for personal use is fine. I think it's reasonable to say that pirating for personal, non-commercial use (even when "non-commercial" is always vaguely defined) is fine.