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Originally Posted by maxiart
Funny how, looking at it from that angle, mostly people share 'easy-to-find, legitimately available' things, uh? Really, with that mentality, I would not be surprised if you wondered why people even share at all!  |
I'm not following you at all.
Let's say Person A has a bootleg of a movie that he loves. It's out of print, it's never on TV; he thinks it's great and wishes all his friends and relations in cyberspace could all see it and enjoy it as much as he does, but since there's no commercial copy available, they have no way to do that. So he decides to upload his movie and share it.
On the other hand, Person B has this great DVD that can be bought in any store for $10 or so. If his friends want it, they can easily buy it anywhere. What's his incentive to upload it and provide it free of charge, depriving the creators of income and clearly breaking the law?
In the first case, Person A can rationalize that he is nobly providing something to the public that they would otherwise be deprived of. I can understand that. In the second case, if Person B uploads the readily available DVD, does he have any way to rationalize his bad behavior?