You don't really believe that, do you? you realize that by the act of posting the message to this site, the message and it's licensing becomes governed by the site's Terms of Service, which include a license for the site to serve the message and the site's users to download it, so the is NO infringement whatsoever. He posted, ergo he licensed. Period.

As for the "damages" you claim he would be suffering by your "infringing", you cant judge those upfront without further knowledge of his motivation. If his motivation is to proselytize for IP enforcement, then getting the message posted in a high traffic site for many to read means your downloading and reading of his post did not damage him, but actually rewarded him. As for why he might want to proselytize, for all we know he could make a living out of IP and thus have a vested interest in the subject. I'm not claiming any of these are his motives, but just claim you don't know either.

Next time try a better argumentative line.

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Not sure about where you live, but does the post office charge the recipient for delivered mail also? If yes, you may have a point and the post office would be performing the exact behavior that is being criticized. Otherwise, your analogy would only hold if the ISP wanted to charge the content providers instead of the content consumers.

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Another very important point is that the economic situation in Chile allows for a stricter building code. With a GDP per capita about 10% that of Chile, if housing costs due to regulation were the same in Haiti, most Haitians would be homeless instead of better housed. Not saying this is a good situation, but sometimes reality has an ugly face.

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Having seen how fast pillaging and looting, of private homes as well as commercial establishments, came up after the Chile earthquake, I would have to strongly disagree with you. It was not until the government placed the area under military control that it did not stop.

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Not quite. When doing this stuff on a platform with limited or non existent floating point support you can always use fixed point arithmetic.

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As much right as an investor who buys stock cheap can receive dividends later. Once you own stock in a company, you keep getting dividends as long as the company makes money, and you don't need to even have worked in the company. What is so different?

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Hmm... Sounds an awful lot like income tax.

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Since looking for it is much more fun than actually finding it.

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which is what Run As is for.

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For that there is pr0n.

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