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Originally posted by JMM
Photocopying newsweek is illegal. Handing a disc to your neighbor is illegal. Comparing that to the p2p networks is a horrible analogy. That is like comparing apples and oranges. Someone else may not be profiting off the sweat of your labor, but you are not profiting anywhere near what you could be or should be from the sweat of your labor either. That to me is the same as taking money out of my pocket.
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Yes, I know they're all illegal. But this was my point, was your neighbor ever going to buy that Newsweek anyway? NO. Was he ever going to go out and buy that software you just gave him for free? NOPE.
Making this analogy to P2P is exactly the same thing. They're both examples of people getting something for nothing, that they wouldn't have paid for either way. Freeloaders are freeloaders by nature. No law is going to stop it, it's only going to make life hard for you and everyone around you... and give the system one more way to screw you over.