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Old 01-22-2012, 07:05 AM  
cess
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/script...s/473/207.html

the supreme court disagrees with you
You're right it's not theft, it's much worse than theft. If you walk into best buy and steal a movie you basically took away 10 bucks or whatever from them. If you download a movie and share it with thousands or millions of other people you cost whoever owns the copyright to that movie thousands if not millions.

That's why lawsuits are for thousands of dollars or more when someone is sued for copyright infringement. When someone steals a DVD no one really cares.

I'm sure some fuckturd will come in and say "but everyone they shared with wouldn't have bought it!" The truth is though if only 10% would have bought it that's still a shitload of money in most cases.
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