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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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the granted right to backup assumed that the backups were not shared, especially if those 'backups' contained copyright material that you did not own distribution rights to.
the granted right to timeshift is perfectly valid - always was - as long as you PAID for the original and did not distribute it or the copies publically or for profit
the granted right to format shift is also perfectly valid as long as you PAID for the original format and didn't sell or distribute publically
the various 'backup and distribution' sites are abusing the hell out of the 'public distribution' portion and the 'sell' portion
I think the core of your argument is: you think that - 'everything must have been paid for at least
once' and therefore it is a valid argument that "making 'everything' available for free (because it is a 'backup' to 'someone') is righteous"
"and if pirates make a shitload of 'incidental' cash from advertisements, well thats just dandy."
also - your 'shoe analogy' (or any hard good 'rights') assumes that you bought
A product that can't be instantly, perfectly, and for free - copied - and distributed - so do with it whatever the fuck you want - sorry, try again.
you are so batshit crazy
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