Comment Is overexposure worse than exposure? (Score 1) 63
Inquiring minds want to know
Inquiring minds want to know
Can it read e-mail?
You're right, when you download a file, the original copy disappears in a cloud of smoke. You've deprived its owner of his copy. That is theft.
Or worse, if you would never have bought a copy in the first place, then you've stolen the profit the media company would never have made. That is theft.
Of course if you mention viewing the movie to someone such that they would not have considered it otherwise and THEY buy a copy, then you've deprived the media company of a sale. That is theft.
It's important to pay for all copies so that media companies can keep getting rich and not pay the artists because the media companies hold all the rights and make all the money. That is theft.
[...] I don't want to see Google with a monopoly either. MS kind of keeps them in check.
I was going to reply 'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss'
but in fact, you can be sure the two are allies in screwing-over their employees, so I'll quote Orwell, instead:
"Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever. Their struggles and their difficulties were one. Was not the labour problem the same everywhere?"
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand