Comment Re:IP valid, but != physical property rights (Score 1) 979
How is their right to distribute the movie removed by me distributing the movie? True, they have lost their _exclusivity_, but once again, _I_ don't have it. I did not "steal" anything.
And maybe people talk about stealing "movies" and "music" instead of "removing the exclusivity of the corporation's distribution rights" because that's how _they_ almost always frame the debate; "You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a purse....". And that framing is _wrong_. All a pirate has done is take away the artificial scarcity they have introduced into the market.
And quite frankly, I don't give a flying crap what the media companies _think_ they are selling me, I am buying the _movie/software/ebook/almbum/whatever_ not "licensing rights" to it. That's a legal fiction to which I refuse to give lip service.
And maybe people talk about stealing "movies" and "music" instead of "removing the exclusivity of the corporation's distribution rights" because that's how _they_ almost always frame the debate; "You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a purse....". And that framing is _wrong_. All a pirate has done is take away the artificial scarcity they have introduced into the market.
And quite frankly, I don't give a flying crap what the media companies _think_ they are selling me, I am buying the _movie/software/ebook/almbum/whatever_ not "licensing rights" to it. That's a legal fiction to which I refuse to give lip service.
