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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
It's not entirely true, but it's true to a significant extent. And far from being the opposite, it's a well established fact that people who experience, for example, music via piracy may go on to buy that music or other music from the same people, which they would not have done if they had not heard them via piracy first. Or they may watch a pirated movie, and enjoy it enough to then pay to see it in the cinema. It's exactly the same principle behind free samples.
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What ?
You're justifying piracy as "free samples" ? Who gave you, or people like you, the right to decide that you can have a free sample of anything ?
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You may as well say if crime went away tomorrow every person would be a law abiding citizen.
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That's another pro piracy chestnut, read it all the time in the comments on anti piracy blogs and articles on sites like Torrent Freak.
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The only way piracy would go away is if people didn't want to pirate any more. Self evidently if people don't pirate, it means they're be happy to buy the product. Piracy won't go away tomorrow, just as it exists today, precisely because it's a symptom of not wanting to buy.
Theft is a cost of doing business. Always has been and always will be.
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And more pro piracy chestnuts. Poorly thought out, simplistic and selfish views shared by all those who believe piracy is ok.
How about you come clean, do you support piracy ?