Thread: High Court orders British ISPs to block "The Pirate Bay"
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Old 05-07-2012, 05:10 PM   #287
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
I am no writer, musician, or in any other way affected by piracy. I am 100% on the other side of the fence.

The point is, how can you justify the downloader getting something for free? What has he or she done to deserve it? No matter what or if there is any damage, no matter if anyone notices it. What gives the downloader the right to just take what doesn't belong to him?

I am looking at it purely from the downloaders state of mind. How does he justify it? This is the important question. Forget what others are doing, who else did something wrong or immoral. The downloader had no book, song, movie before he downloaded. After "the act" he has a copy of something that costs money. How is this right?
Deserve it? What have you done to deserve to breathe the air you are using?

You can also see it as that downloading increase the total happiness in the world. How do you motivate not increasing the happiness in the world. What is wrong with you?
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