By your own definition, if you TAKE it, you stole it. Nothing is taken.
Necronomicommunist
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Very strange comparison, those private copies are specifically private. If you want our comparison to work, I'd be selling these private documents to others... Making them not very private.
Forgery is a specific type of fraud where the copy is presented as an original. I'd say it's closer, but it's definitely not a 1:1 accurate comparison
Yeah, that's what the post is about.
So is Facebook and Twitter. This meme is premature in triplicate.
Cato institute, lmao
If you think the biggest obstacle when you're driving around isn't other cars you're delusional. You're the reason "just one more lane bro" memes exist
What does it do?
And how do you differentiate between these people? Does the person who pirate have a bigger financial effect than the person who doesn't care about the product, or can't afford it and doesn't buy it?
"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-"the greater is the store of your estranged being.
You're saying consumers are the victim because the prices would go up. The prices would go up because the producer raised the price. That's what you said. Does that happen to games that don't sell because they are unpopular? Then why would it happen to games because they are pirated? The whole thing is clearly not happening logically, but also empirically: games with DRM are clearly not cheaper than games without.
Just for the record: you are saying that the creator of a piece of media can tell the difference between his media not being bought due to piracy, vs due to other reasons for not buying the piece of media, due to his income? If a game only sells 1000 copies due to piracy, or a game sells 1000 copies because there is no interest, there is a difference of income?
I'm imposing that property on it because for the overwhelming majority of media that is absolutely the case.
If it's for sale it's something you do not mind other people seeing. My documents I do not sell because I don't want people seeing it. If I were to sell them, clearly I don't mind people seeing it.
Making it for sale means you intend to share it, even if conditionally. Also "taking it" doesn't apply, making a copy isn't taking anything.