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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 4967856" data-attributes="member: 307">That's a nice argument in favor of misappropriating anything with no penalty. It is supposedly bogus because you assume that no one would have bought the book, because they downloaded it instead of buying it, which means that they didn't value the book as much as the seller did. How do you come to that conclusion? You have no idea how much the downloaders valued the book, and how much they would have paid absent the ability to download the product for free. Your assumptions that they valued the book less than retail value is as much an assumption as you accuse the legal system of making.Which brings us to the salient question. Exactly how should illegally downloaded content be valued? What metric do you propose other than &quot;what the copyright holder would have sold the property for&quot;. Unless you have some sort of other metric that is somehow able to be figured out that is objectively &quot;correct&quot; in the sense you want to apply, then you simply don't have a leg to stand on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 4967856, member: 307"] That's a nice argument in favor of misappropriating anything with no penalty. It is supposedly bogus because you assume that no one would have bought the book, because they downloaded it instead of buying it, which means that they didn't value the book as much as the seller did. How do you come to that conclusion? You have no idea how much the downloaders valued the book, and how much they would have paid absent the ability to download the product for free. Your assumptions that they valued the book less than retail value is as much an assumption as you accuse the legal system of making. Which brings us to the salient question. Exactly how should illegally downloaded content be valued? What metric do you propose other than "what the copyright holder would have sold the property for". Unless you have some sort of other metric that is somehow able to be figured out that is objectively "correct" in the sense you want to apply, then you simply don't have a leg to stand on. [/QUOTE]

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