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Originally Posted by DJ The Kid
Again, I disagree, it is one in the same, with different variables.
Copying porn is not free, it costs time and money (server costs, etc).
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You really think that?
You can download a ton of porn and start up a porn site for very little money. You could use a download manager and download gigs and gigs of porn in a day. Spend a few hundred dollars on a script and hosting then another few days uploading and you have yourself a nice big tube site filled with a ton of high quality movies on it. It costs you very little and not a whole lot of time.
It will cost you tens of thousands of dollars to manufacture, sell and ship clothes or shoes. Porn is something you can do yourself. Clothes require an entire network of people to get the product into the customer's hands.
It is like saying that the guy who delivers the newspaper spends the same amount of time, effort and money doing his job as the people who write, edit, put together and print the newspaper.
They are very different.
There is a reason most clothing lines fail. They are expensive to start and operate. When you steal a known, popular design you eliminate some of the risk, but there is still an enormous amount of cost in duplicating and distributing those clothes.