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Piracy is closer to someone running a bottling plant off your house's tap and leaving you to pay the utility bill. You still have your water, but that money's p
by superuser2 13y ago
Piracy is closer to someone running a bottling plant off your house's tap and leaving you to pay the utility bill. You still have your water, but that money's pretty clearly been stolen.
- angersock 13y agoNo, that's a bad analogy, because they haven't caused me to fail to realize a revenue. It's also a bad analogy because I have to pay for the water--in file sharing, others are paying the power, bandwidth, and storage costs.
- superuser2 13y agoAppealing to the power/bandwidth/storage costs is a cheap trick and always has been. They are irrelevant. The issue is the cost of creating content. Granted, it's not a continuous scale like water, but rather a massive one-time investment that gets paid off over time. Water is a poor analogy, but this scenario at least captures the fact that party A is incurring a cost and party B is reaping the benefit without compensating A.
- angersock 13y agoNow, one wonders, why is it this massive one-time investment? And does it really make the world a better place that we are catering legally to people with an inefficient business model? (the usual arguments about authorship, creation, and reward ignored for the sake of brevity)