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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I should just be allowed to take whatever I want from the shops because I don't have enough money to buy it!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It would economically detrimental to force you to pay for it. The entire system would suffer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But these are intellectual property, would you be ok having to pay to be allowed to remember what you saw in the shop ?

Currently If I go to the shop, see a tasty looking ready meal, I can look at what ingredients are in it, go home and try to cook something similar without having to pay for the recipe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would a DVD shop be ok with me taking a portable player in, watching a movie, then putting it back on the shelf?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Aren't we doing that with books and magazine already ? Also many stores have TV on which they project movies that they sell dvd for