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Originally Posted by 420
Selling tangible disks is stealing. Selling or sharing a digital copy of a "virtual item" is still a gray area.
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I'm pretty sure that you would have a very different opinion if a copy of a porn movie you shot ended up on a Tube site, making other people money.
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Originally Posted by 420
It does belong to you because you downloaded it.  |
No, it doesn't. It only belongs to you IF you pay for the rights. When you buy a movie ticket, you pay for the legal right for YOU to watch that movie 1 time.
When you buy a DVD or download, you pay for the right to watch the movie in your own home. However, you do not have the right to distribute the movie (to copy and give away or sell the DVD's, or to stream it online), or even to show the movie in a public venue such as a bar).
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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
What I've noticed is that people who make all these counter arguments eventually lose.
It's pretty simple : Rich people made something; now watch them protect it. The end.
It will always end in favor of big money because free downloads don't create jobs or taxes.
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It's not just that. The act of making movies cost alot of money - $100 Million is the typical budget for big movies now. All the actors and all of the crew (thousands now) all deserve to be paid for their contribution to the movie. They get paid, and the studio makes a profit, on the per-ticket fees and licensing fees of the work they created.
No person, for no reason at all, is legally allowed to copy and redistribute that movie, unless the licensing fees are paid.