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Originally Posted by latepaul
A question: do you accept that what you're buying in this case is not a physical good but a license? I know that some people argue it's not a license and if that's your view - well I don't want to have that argument again but I think it is a license and that's why technically[*] I think it's infringement.
[*]again I don't think anyone's going to go after the individual end customer.
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We are buying a license, of course. But if I fullfill the criteria so they sell to me (IP address, billing address, etc) therefore I have a legal license. Anyway, it is rather ridiculous trying to make paying customers look worse than people who download for free. Even if we technically accept infringement (which I absolutely do not), then it would be infringement on a very different level of severity. This whole thread is more like an attempt to justify piracy than anything else.