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by xlnt 19y ago
It's not a value of zero dollars. People don't buy (or rent) things when the price is higher than the value to them. If the price is $10, and the value to them is $3, they wouldn't buy it.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Which way could a careful user not avoid contributing to that kind of climate? The "vast" good is the over 50% of downloads (my estimate) that wouldn't have been purchases anyway. Even if it's 5%, that's still a lot of value of movies/etc t
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by xlnt 19y ago
Contributing how? You can turn off seeding.
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by xlnt 19y ago
An individual user can think about what he would have bought without torrents, or not, and only download things he would not have bought anyway.
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by xlnt 19y ago
The downloads which hurt someone, and the ones which don't, can be separated.
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by xlnt 19y ago
I didn't say anything about Torrentspy. Do you have any suggestions for what I can do in future discussions so that people listen more to what I actually say? As for how common this type of downloading is, do you think if torrent sites didn
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by xlnt 19y ago
Suppose I don't tell anyone I've downloaded. Then it wouldn't create a climate. Let's assume for now, for clarity, that I do nothing to contribute to a climate. I never post to torrent forums, never help people get torrents, I never seed, I
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by xlnt 19y ago
You keep bringing up things I haven't said, and not answering the question directly. The fact is, if I download a movie that I would not have bought or rented if downloading was not available, then the producers do not have a dwindling numb
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by xlnt 19y ago
the question is, quote: In the movie downloading case, who is being hurt when they wouldn't have bought it anyway? You haven't answered that. Note also that I didn't say any of the stuff you are calling a specious point.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. you still haven't answered the question and now you're sarcastically insulting me. that's called trolling.
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by xlnt 19y ago
i said when it wouldn't be paid for anyway, then it doesn't hurt anyone. this is obviously common because people download more stuff than they could afford.
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by xlnt 19y ago
if you're having that much trouble debugging paren, put them all on their own lines and use indentation. then it'll be easy enough to fix.
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by xlnt 19y ago
People missing the reference was kind of my guess, but I wasn't sure. Thanks. And, yeah, I knew that asking why the downmodding would be downmodded. It's ok. It was worth it. And I expected you had read the comment thread and just didn't re
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by xlnt 19y ago
maybe the competition who followed the law. maybe no one. i'm not sure. regardless of my opinion of who is hurt in the GPL case, i do have one in the movie downloading case. you seem to too, but you still won't say who is being hurt.
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by xlnt 19y ago
You just linked me to a thread I wrote half a dozen comments in? Did you read it? :) Certain types of making fun of things make for valid comments. In this case, I was pointing out the striking similarity between what he said, and 1984.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Why is this downmodded and the parent downmodded? I was making fun of the parent. If the parent is bad, I was right. It should go one way or the other.
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by xlnt 19y ago
i see this is a comparison of some kind, but it's not very clear. in the movie downloading case, who is being hurt when they wouldn't have bought it anyway? or if no one, why is it bad?
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by xlnt 19y ago
The majority of downloads are things people would not have otherwise bought, for whatever reason. In those cases, no one is being hurt, and someone is being helped. The reason torrent sites keep popping up is the vast amount of good they do
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by xlnt 19y ago
that's a lot of diet advice. i think the key factor is actually your approach to thinking.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Ignorance is Strength
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by xlnt 19y ago
So, which sentences in the article contain mistakes, specifically?
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by xlnt 19y ago
i think video and pictures are useful for a lot of information (less than writing, but a lot). but in general they are more expensive to do well. but examples include charts, maps, and graphs, and also pictures of scenes usually work better
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by xlnt 19y ago
Who cares who's "qualified" to say what? Is there a part of the article you feel is mistaken, and if so which part and why?
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by xlnt 19y ago
A lot of people think they can't help it, so don't seriously try to.
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by xlnt 19y ago
I said that, as we all know, it hurts people. If you can't justify good reasons to do it anyway, or come up with an argument it doesn't actually hurt people, then it's a bad idea.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Just because some TV, video games, novels, etc, are not worthwhile doesn't mean you should be averse to rich media in general. The format is good, and good things can be put in it.
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by xlnt 19y ago
If an argument works to support either position then it's not a justification for romance.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Genes get to make changes every generation of humans. That's every 25 years or so. And to get very far evolution can take a lot of generations. Ideas can go through generations in a matter of seconds within someone's head. So that's orders
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by xlnt 19y ago
It's easier to sell loans that are likely to get paid back, isn't it? And at a higher price.
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by xlnt 19y ago
Isn't psychoanalyzing the other person (and considering him an 'opponent'), rather than focussing impersonally on ideas, more the stuff of the low numbers than the top? True it could help him, but only if appreciated. It frequently won't be

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