Comment Re:That's actually pretty clever (Score 1) 193
Stealing would be walking into my house and taking my hard drive.
Do you lay any claim to the data on that hard drive? Would not the thief merely be requiring you to line up your kids and take new snapshots of them, or recalculate your taxes, or re-download all your torrents? Have they actually deprived you of anything, by your standards? I'm genuinely curious if you attach any value to time and effort, or if because it is merely digital it can never have any value at all.
In this example the theif would have deprived him of the data (as well as real physical property) since he would no longer have the hard disk. Piracy however is closer to the theif copying the entire contents of the hard drive remotely and without permission, but leaving its contents intact. Of course it takes time and effort to create media (even the painful manufactured stuff) - but copying does not make you have to repeat the effort of creating it again because someone has destroyed it.
