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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
This post is dripping with delicious irony-sauce. Berating someone for getting the technical meaning of "stealing" wrong, and then applying a meaning that is no less correct buy helps advance your own personal position caused me to have a grin two-sizes too large for my face. Thank you for that.
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It is not "technical" to point out that a company charging what in your opinion is too much for a product is "stealing." It is fundamental.
"Stealing" is a broader concept than theft, but in my jurisdiction, even theft is "exerting unauthorized control over the property of another person with intent to deprive the other person of any part of its use or value."
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Except, as has been pointed out many times, and in threads that you've participated in, recent studies have shown that pirates do in fact buy quite a bit of media even though it's evident that they know how to get it for free. Gabe Newell at Valve Software would certainly disagree with you as well and say that most pirates are merely under-served customers. Valve's profits in the Russian market (where piracy is rampant), would certainly seem to suggest that Gabe is correct on this one.
It's easy to demonize copyright infringers, but hyperbole doesn't make for a useful conversation.
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Yeah, I've participated in those threads. But I don't see how they are really relevant.
Do *you* believe that a person who charges more than you want to pay for a product is stealing?