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Re: Hm said by ztmike:BUT with the crap economy and high gas prices and food prices, peoples wallets are seriously running thin, and torrents is really the only way they can still get what they want. I've owned and admired Honda products over the years (cars, motorcycles, outboard motors, generators, etc) but the one I really really really want is their new HondaJet. I can't afford to buy one...truth be told I couldn't even afford to fuel it up. Maybe I should just go steal one, eh? |
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Hingham, MA | The thing is, if you steal that HondaJet you're definitely taking away a sale and stealing something of monetary value.
Theoretically, if you illegally download a movie you had no intention of paying for, no one has lost anything. Since you weren't going to pay, the content creator is no worse off than if you hadn't watched the movie at all. You're obviously better off, since you clearly wanted to watch the movie and presumably benefited from doing so. So it's a net gain.
The problem comes when people who, absent piracy, would have paid for said movie download it for free instead. And there's no way to prove whether one would have paid for it or not. |
