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Originally Posted by epitome
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.
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if i buy a chair there is nothing to stop me from taking it apart going into my shop and building 100 copies and selling them
just because it easier to do with content doesn't change the fact that your talking about taking away right
the whole theft analogy is bogus because copyright is all about taking away property rights and replacing them with use rights
a trade off allowed because you automatically grant the public unlimited use rights for a collection of actions defined as fair use.