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Originally Posted by varlog
{sigh} really not my forum...
Of course casual theft is still theft. I was trying to say something different.
Just tree points and I'm out.
1. DRM is not preventing (not)/casual theft. All the books are already there on the Net, stripped of DRM and shouting "take me".
2. If you somehow prevent one exchanging one's eggs from S to L, being the person one is, one will surly find some other way to get one's bargain, because that's one's way!
3. If it is easier to replace S eggs with L eggs than just buy L eggs then even an honest person would be tempted.
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Sorry if misunderstood you. To me casual theft is someone who unthinkingly passes a copy to another person or two, and then they pass left to another person or two. The number of copies distributed in this way can and does increase exponentially, with no one realising that it is not perfectly above board and legal.
Most pirated copies are done knowingly and not in a casual manner. Of course my definition is really only my opinion.
I actually cannot see it being easier to move 12 eggs from the large size carton and move the small eggs to the large size carton, in plain view of other shoppers, than to just take the large size carton to the cash and pay for it. Of course you would save a few cents, maybe even 30 cents which might be considered an incentive? I have seen this twice and I don't spend a lot of time in the egg department. I didn't turn them in or even complain, because I assumed that anyone who would do this is probably more in need of psychiatric help than an upbraiding, and no good would be done by reporting them.
Still I started checking my eggs for size and on an occasion or two I spotted broken ones.
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Originally Posted by cromag
Hey! I was just making sure I got 12 unbroken eggs! They were the same size ... honest!
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I did not go to the trouble of replacing the broken ones as it was easier to just take another carton that had unbroken eggs. Didn't want to deal with taking out the broken gooey ones and putting an unblemished egg in the gooey space left behind. Just me I am afraid.
Helen