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Originally Posted by charonme
I still address the morality issue. It has not been shown why would the above mentioned case be immoral/deception nor what is the crucial difference between one case of not informing about a competitor's lower price which is not immoral and another case which allegedly is immoral.
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Let me put it to you like this: Say you are running a food kitchen for the homeless and someone invents a magical machine that duplicates all the food in your kitchen and transports it to their store a couple of blocks away.
There they start selling this duplicated food at $1 per meal "special discounted rate for the homeless". Now since homeless people are distributed all over the city, some of them will wander into our duplicators store and spend what little money they have on that food, because they will not know about your food kitchen.
Now if the duplicator had not duplicated but instead had used his own ingredients/labor I would say he is free to charge whatever he wants and he is not devrauding them by not telling them about your food kitchen.
Even if the duplicator has duplicated, I would say he is free to charge what he wants, but that if he does so without informing his customers that the same thing can be had for free down the road, then he is devrauding them.
So to summarize: Either you make your own product and then feel free to charge whatever you want with no obligations, or you sell
identical effort free copies you have made of someone else's product at whatever price you want, but inform your customers about the original price, if it is lower.