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Originally Posted by mrkai
If what you are selling does not have the value to your intended target, its not going to be paid for. The difference is, that in DigiWorld here...they can get it anyway and I think this is the part that makes everyone all mad.
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I'm afraid that to my mind, the idea that one has some "God-given right" to play/read/hear something without paying for it is a very strange idea that appears to show a complete lack of ethics in the person concerned.
Why do such people think that they have some "right" to use the results of other peoples' hard work without paying for it?
It's NOT for them to decide "what it's worth"; it's for me, as a producer, to decide what to sell my product for for, and for them to decide, as a consumer, whether or not it's worth that to them. If it is, they buy it; if it's not, then don't. That is the way that our economy works.
If I want a new car, I might go along to my local Ford dealer, and see a car that I like. That car has a price, say £12000. If it's worth £12000 to me, I'll buy it. I won't turn around to the dealer and say "I think that car's only worth £7000, so I'm going to steal it from you rather than pay £12000 for it."
I see absolutely no legal or moral difference between doing that and taking software or a book or a movie without paying for it.