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Originally Posted by bronco67
The "never going to buy anyway" rationale always cracked me up.
Can you go into Foot Locker and put on some expensive Nike basketball shoes, say "I'm keeping these, because I wasn't going to buy them anyway", then walk out?
It would be jail time.
here's where a digital thief responds with, "yeah, but a movie is a copy of the original. You can't make copies of the sneaker" -- some other dumbass double talk bullshit.
A product is a product. One goes on your feet to help you play better basketball -- the other goes in your ear and eyeholes to be processed by your neurons and give you a woody.
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while i don't agree with the "never going to buy anyway" excuse
your analogy is just plain stupid
if you buy shoes you can sell them, you can rent them, you can break them up and make new stuff out of them.
all those rights don't exist for copyright
and a whole bunch of new rights do in their place, like the right to backup, timeshift, and format shift content you bought BY any technology available.
unless you want to give buyers all of those rights, you really have no right to make the comparison.