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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You're not telling us you're all upset because all those invisible EM waves broadcasting content from the Playboy Channel are washing all over you? (Or would it be Lifetime?) Should I be as upset because local radio stations are bombarding my airwaves with conservative Republican propaganda? Or acid rock?
Come on. Since there is no study in the world that states that such signals descending on everything without a dish in front of it affect any plant, animal or mineral in the process, there is no reason to attack the "electromagnetic shower" you're getting from it. That's just being specious.
Satellite TV services are legitimate operations, authorized by the FCC and other international authorities to use leased wavelengths for their service. In exchange for the lease, which pays to the authorities, the FCC et al has arranged with governments to require anyone wanting to access those airwaves to use only authorized equipment to do so. Legally speaking, you do not have the "right" to build your own satellite dish and decoder box to obtain their signal for free. Your government says so.
You may not like such an arrangement, but as it benefits the majority of viewers, the satellite company, and the government, the government considers it a legitimate arrangement, and violators subject to prosecution.
Piracy is a two-way street. The people who give away content without compensating the owners for it are in the wrong. The people who take the content without compensating the owners for it are in the wrong. All this stuff about "I can take stuff because it's right here" doesn't make a person any less wrong.
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You totally missed my point, Steve. The point is that they
give me the EM signal, then pass a law that says I must pay to use it. With ebook piracy, the owner is not giving me anything. I have to reach out to the darknet and
take it. I.e. my point was that "stealing" EM signals is
not physically the same as "stealing" copies of ebooks - whether or not it is the same from a legal and/or moral perspective.
And yes I know that the Government is doing what "they" think best for the majority. Unfortunately I am a member of the smallest minority in the world, the individual who is me. But that is a whole other issue.