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Originally Posted by gideongallery
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.
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You can sell ONE pair of shoes. The shoes you bought. You cannot personally sell that pair of shoes to 1,000 different people like you can with digital content.
Content producers have never gone in and busted people selling their used CD's at yard sales. Now if they're selling copies of CD's, that's a whole different thing.