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I wish more people understood this argument. Hollywood lobbyists have brainwashes a lot of people to equate piracy and stealing. When people like you or I try
by bsimpson 14y ago
I wish more people understood this argument. Hollywood lobbyists have brainwashes a lot of people to equate piracy and stealing. When people like you or I try to disentangle them , there's often a knee-jerk accusation that we're somehow endorsing piracy.
- saurik 14y agoCopying information means you have two copies; sharing a public good means there is less to go around. Even if the piracy case is somehow justified by the "I can't steal something if you never know I took it" argument, that simply isn't the case with something like Internet access. As a demonstration: shared Internet access is subject to tragedy of the commons in a very clear and direct way that music piracy is not (especially if you take into account "enforcing the laws against pirates doesn't cause most pirates to pay, they just consume less or not at all").