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Originally Posted by rationalbiker
You see, you can't argue with someone like this. He has rationalized in his mind that his "need" gives him the right to steal and that it is therefore acceptable.
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I never said I had any "need" and I didn't even say it was acceptable, only that it's beneficial to me since any guilt of mine over the stealing is negated by tremendous personal benefit. Also, you don't have to "argue" with me (notice how I'm quoting something you actually said) because I'm not here to promote an agenda but rather to offer thoughts related to the piracy discussion. One of the themes of what I've been saying here is that fighting the financial downfalls piracy as an us vs. them issue is becoming increasingly irrelevant as piracy becomes more and more mainstream, and thereby accepted. I'd hope that the most relevant point content distributors (Steve Jordan, I'm looking at you) can take away from my comments and the similar comments from others is that the pool of people who pirate can't be viewed as autonomous from the positive revenue you receive from legitimate sales. Pirates are a huge market that encompass every single demographic in every country throughout the whole world, and many of them are also active purchasers of legitimate media. If you can get your media into the hands of enough pirates (with whatever safeguards you deem necessary to protect your interests) then some of those pirates will eventually turn into new customers (albeit morally ambiguous ones).