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Originally Posted by bronco67
---and they only take digital stuff because THEY CAN.
If the sneaker industry was viewed as some out of control greed monster, you wouldn't see them running into Foot Locker and carrying armfuls of Reeboks down the street, because the cops would throw them in jail.
They're not oppressed by the man, trying to create a new paradigm. They're assholes, and have probably never created anything -- so they put no value in anything that is created by someone else.
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The point is... they wouldn't have paid either way. Before piracy, they copied movies from fiends, did movie exchanges and trades. No new movies, no theaters, nothing but another way to pirate.
Piracy isn't stealing, if you make a copy of something for your own personal use, you're not going to jail for it.