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| Just One Thing Lets see how the piracy excuse to other areas. I love Halibut but the prices are astronomical about $11.00 to $14.00 per pound, it has gotten to the point to where tenderloin steaks are cheaper. Because of high prices, I go to the grocery store and help my self to a few packages of halibut fillets without paying for them, and give a few to my friends. When the story tries to stop me for shoplifting, can I call it unfair to stop me from taking halibut from the store because of high prices.
Theft it Theft
ps If the industry is losing to the looter perhaps the solution is Atlas Shrugged. |
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 MidakDoctors suckPremium
join:2002-02-26
Yonkers, NY | No offense but that same asinine argument has been cut to shreds too many times and does not compare to pirated content whatsoever. |
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bennorPremium
join:2006-07-22
New Haven, CT | reply to Scatcatpdx
said by Scatcatpdx:a few packages of halibut fillets without paying for them, and give a few to my friends. Really bad analogy since the so called "theft" in question here is done in digital form and there is NO physical package/medium that is being stolen. What NBC is bitching about is NOT theft, its copyright infringement. »www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html |
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | reply to Scatcatpdx
said by Scatcatpdx:Lets see how the piracy excuse to other areas. I love Halibut but the prices are astronomical about $11.00 to $14.00 per pound, it has gotten to the point to where tenderloin steaks are cheaper. Because of high prices, I go to the grocery store and help my self to a few packages of halibut fillets without paying for them, and give a few to my friends. When the story tries to stop me for shoplifting, can I call it unfair to stop me from taking halibut from the store because of high prices. Theft it Theft ps If the industry is losing to the looter perhaps the solution is Atlas Shrugged. For you and anyone else that is mistaking *COPYING* for Theft...
See this attached AVI?
Download it, it's harmless and ~5MB.
I just made it!
Ok, go to where you downloaded it to, is it there?
Does it work? Cool!
Now, come back to this post and see if your downloading it removed it from this post. Nope!
Theft denys use to the original owner of said item.
Since I still have the original here, and the one I *COPIED* to this post - and you downloading it did *NOT* remove it from this post or my HDD, no theft was involved.
At best, there has been an unauthorized copying of a digital file. But, the original file is still intact and still where it was.
Not theft! 
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I will answer you all in one post. The common thread is the use of moral relativism and situational ethics to justify theft.
If one did not get permission from NBC it is theft or unauthorized use of their media. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | so my VCR that removes ads from shows is theft? |
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18
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said by Scatcatpdx:I will answer you all in one post. The common thread is the use of moral relativism and situational ethics to justify theft. If one did not get permission from NBC it is theft or unauthorized use of their media. Got VCR? 
VCRs were the scourge of the movie industry and networks - but that got squashed.
Nearly everyone and their brother had a VCR. I still have one!
Got DVR?
I have two! 
Typing this post on one of them! 
Yeah, you could say I can record/edit/copy just about any media there is. 
So here we find ourselves in the digital age... guess what...
Same picture, different format!
Digital copying of digital media is not theft - it is at worst Copyright Infringement.
As was all the other nasty recording equipment that has come and gone.
Theft deprives the original owner of that item, since the original never moves, no theft!
Copying is not theft!
See my post above explaining it.
Thanks!
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