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The lighting of street lamps never accounted for 4% of the US economy, equaling $400 billion a year, and employing close to 1.6 million domestic employees. Once you get a grasp on this, and a better example, feel free to reply.
Ok, so the backbone of American Industry (millions of jobs) goes down the tubes. Good to know! Gov't doens't give bailouts for fun, it was aboluley needed
Ok, you seem a little dense; let's try this again - and did you happen to even watch the video sbove?
It is completely erroneous, as it's giving the facade that this argument can be applied to physical goods (and don't tell me the CD is actually what you're interested in, it's not - you are interested in the data, not the medium).
Ok, so in the video, a mickey mouse looking character magically copies a bike for his friend. Yay! Now there are two bikes for the price of one. Now I agree semantically that this is not theft, since nothing was stolen, but was actually duplicated. If that's your entire argument right there, then Jesus let's move on already - (i.e. No shit)
Now, since we cannot magically manifest things (i.e. laws of physics, transfer of energy and whatnot), this whole argument can ONLY be applied to infinite, non-physical goods.
If this is incorrect, please cite examples. I'll wait.
Then you are just arguing semantics. Copying is not theft as defined my merriem webster. No shit sherlock. Congratulation s,on understanding the English language. We are passed that point, and we've moved on.
So it's not wrong to buy a DRM-free CD from Warner Bros. Music, make 1000 copies, and distribute them to my company freely without any ethical or legal concern?
I paid for 1 CD, now I have 1000. Whether my co-workers would have bought the CD is irrelevant - keep in mind I don't believe in the 'lost sale' argument.
THOUGH EXPERIMENT:
If there all of a sudden existed a machine that could copy cars (or other very large expensive pieces machinery) with a click of a button, we wouldn't have an automotive industry - it would crumble. An entire neighborhood would simply chip in to buy a nice $30,000 car, then just copy it 50 times (freely) so everyone can have one. How nice!
CONCLUSION:
You act like your argument of 'copying isn't theft' is scalable - when it is not - as it clearly does not pass the thought experiment above.
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Okay, seriously, I'm not trying to pick a fight here, but that has to be the single most naive thing I've ever read on this site...."
I'd actually like to see you logically rebut this statement, instead of pure speculation and ad hom attacks. I'll wait.
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Did you enter into a legal contract when you took your first breath? NO
Did you pay for the CD? Yes
Did you enter into a legal user agreement when you bought the CD? Yes
Again, instead of regurgitating what others have previously said, get an original idea.
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It is completely erroneous, as it's giving the facade that this argument can be applied to physical goods (and don't tell me the CD is actually what you're interested in, it's not - you are interested in the data, not the medium).
Ok, so in the video, a mickey mouse looking character magically copies a bike for his friend. Yay! Now there are two bikes for the price of one. Now I agree semantically that this is not theft, since nothing was stolen, but was actually duplicated. If that's your entire argument right there, then Jesus let's move on already - (i.e. No shit)
Now, since we cannot magically manifest things (i.e. laws of physics, transfer of energy and whatnot), this whole argument can ONLY be applied to infinite, non-physical goods.
If this is incorrect, please cite examples. I'll wait.
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So it's not wrong to buy a DRM-free CD from Warner Bros. Music, make 1000 copies, and distribute them to my company freely without any ethical or legal concern?
I paid for 1 CD, now I have 1000. Whether my co-workers would have bought the CD is irrelevant - keep in mind I don't believe in the 'lost sale' argument.
THOUGH EXPERIMENT:
If there all of a sudden existed a machine that could copy cars (or other very large expensive pieces machinery) with a click of a button, we wouldn't have an automotive industry - it would crumble. An entire neighborhood would simply chip in to buy a nice $30,000 car, then just copy it 50 times (freely) so everyone can have one. How nice!
CONCLUSION:
You act like your argument of 'copying isn't theft' is scalable - when it is not - as it clearly does not pass the thought experiment above.
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