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Originally Posted by PKFFW
So many here have argued that the "old ways" aren't going to work in this new digital age. I find it odd then that these same people continue to use an "old model" way of assigning value to something. That is they keep using the idea of supply and demand to suggest that since digital media has limitless supply then it has no value.
Well if we are looking to throw out the old ways, lets throw them all out. Lets stop playing semantics and admit that digital media does have a value. It's value is in being the medium by which the content is accessed. Lets try to work out a way to assigning a fair value to this rather than sticking to the old ways when it comes to value because they support our desire for free content.
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Why should all things be thrown out? The principles of economics do not change; all that has changed, in this digital era, is that the supply of a work is insanely abundant once the original has been created. Try as people might to enforce artificial scarcity with such things as DRM, those can and will be defeated by individuals of enough inclination and/or skill, who then proceed to distribute the "unlocked" work to everyone else.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Morally it is theft, unless the copyright holder gave you the rights to distribute it. You are causing someone financial harm.
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But that is only the case because there was a system imposed so they could make financial gains from something that wouldn't happen otherwise! Your argument is like saying abolishing slavery is immoral, because it causes slave owners financial harm. Yes, it does cause financial harm, in both situations, but that "harm" is only there because government laws made things such that they could profit from them.