No. What he's saying is that he'd want to listen to a band on the radio or from a friend before maybe buying their album. Which is completely reasonable. Drawi

No. What he's saying is that he'd want to listen to a band on the radio or from a friend before maybe buying their album. Which is completely reasonable. Drawing parallels between physical property or services and information can be misleading--the real issue with the restaurant example is the restaurant's loss in both time and opportunity cost. Since copies of information are not naturally scarce, this is not an issue. It's really more like he looked at the food and cooked the same meal at home before coming to the restaurant and paying.