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CommanderROR · 11-19-2009, 06:30 PM

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I'm afraid I'll have to dispute you car analogy. If I steal your car then I steal your car. It's there, so it can be stolen. The ebook version of whatever I'd like to read is not actually there at all.
To make the analogy work I would have to phrase it like this:

I see a picture of your car and I like it. Sadly the car is in Australia and I can't buy it from there. Luckily I know somebody who builds cars in his free time. I show him the picture of the car and he constructs one just like it and gives it to me for free...

Physical Theft and so-called piracy is very hard to compare as meraxes correctly points out. That is why the analogy I constructed above sounds extremely silly...

11-19-2009, 06:30 PM	#169
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	@kennyc I'm afraid I'll have to dispute you car analogy. If I steal your car then I steal your car. It's there, so it can be stolen. The ebook version of whatever I'd like to read is not actually there at all. To make the analogy work I would have to phrase it like this: I see a picture of your car and I like it. Sadly the car is in Australia and I can't buy it from there. Luckily I know somebody who builds cars in his free time. I show him the picture of the car and he constructs one just like it and gives it to me for free... Physical Theft and so-called piracy is very hard to compare as meraxes correctly points out. That is why the analogy I constructed above sounds extremely silly... Last edited by CommanderROR; 11-19-2009 at 06:38 PM.