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Originally Posted by MovieBird
You don't really expect anyone to take you seriously when you compare pirating whatever media to a person getting beaten, or installing faulty car parts which can endanger life?
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That might have been an error on the part of the poster you criticize, but the comparison is easily corrected.
Piracy is comparable to shoplifting your average new release PB, which, at the margins, will be remaindered and then pulped if not stolen. One similarity is that shoplifting appears to be, like piracy, a
behavior that most people, at some point in their lives, engage in.
Do I want to give that majority criminal records which would impede their getting productive jobs? No. But, knowing that only partial success is possible, we should discourage such behavior.