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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Are you questioning my "guy"ness?  |
Impossible to tell one way or the other on the internet. For all you know, I could be an AI being run in the back room of an Anonymous server farm. *shrug*
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Note the emphasis above. This means that the provider can, if they so choose, decide to give their product/service away, so of course a consumer then has the right to obtain a copy without paying for it.
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I didn't get that when I read it the first time.
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Are you trying to say that consumers have a social obligation to steal in order to give to others who cannot? If so, by all means, let's discuss.
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No, but societies do have to hang together for mutual assistance to a greater or lesser degree. That aspect of it has only broken recently with the dawn of industrialization.
For example, a carpenter buys a new lathe; the one he has is getting old and worn out. He has a shop garage sale, and sells the old lathe to a poor carpenter who fixes it up a bit and uses it some more until he can afford a new one. The carpenter who had the garage sale is technically helping the other carpenter (offering used but still functional goods below MSRP) and also technically stealing a primary sale because the other carpenter was able to get what he needed without buying from whoever made the lathe.