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<blockquote data-quote="D3v1L80Y" data-source="post: 126323" data-attributes="member: 2960"><p>How is downloading a pirated copy not depriving a developer of a material product? A stolen copy obtained through a download is still depriving a developer of a copy, as they no longer have the option to sell a copy to that person.</p><p>What is flawed here is your perception of the item in question, as you have missed the point of the analogies. Your rationale would imply that as long as you don't steal it form a retail establishment, it is OK. When you create a copy for download, you are in turn stealing from a company because the company can not gain a profit for something they designed, released and expected to be paid for. So a downloaded copy is different from a retail copy how? True, you may not be taking an actual disk that was pressed by MS......but is a downloaded copy somehow not a tangible item? You are still taking the product, sans payment. Just because it is downloaded does not make it not stealing. The more copies that are downloaded, the less that are actually sold, which is the same as taking the copy from the manufacturer, which in turn jacks up the price for the legal copies thus keeping in line with the aforementioned analogies.</p><p>It is still stealing ...it is no different than taking it from a store without paying for it. How you obtain it makes no difference...<strong>it is still an item that was not paid for, though it should have been.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D3v1L80Y, post: 126323, member: 2960"] How is downloading a pirated copy not depriving a developer of a material product? A stolen copy obtained through a download is still depriving a developer of a copy, as they no longer have the option to sell a copy to that person. What is flawed here is your perception of the item in question, as you have missed the point of the analogies. Your rationale would imply that as long as you don't steal it form a retail establishment, it is OK. When you create a copy for download, you are in turn stealing from a company because the company can not gain a profit for something they designed, released and expected to be paid for. So a downloaded copy is different from a retail copy how? True, you may not be taking an actual disk that was pressed by MS......but is a downloaded copy somehow not a tangible item? You are still taking the product, sans payment. Just because it is downloaded does not make it not stealing. The more copies that are downloaded, the less that are actually sold, which is the same as taking the copy from the manufacturer, which in turn jacks up the price for the legal copies thus keeping in line with the aforementioned analogies. It is still stealing ...it is no different than taking it from a store without paying for it. How you obtain it makes no difference...[b]it is still an item that was not paid for, though it should have been.[/b] [/QUOTE]
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