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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 1562329" data-attributes="member: 277">Quick thoughtsGlobal Economy Yes but not Global law as the gentleman from Finland has stated. He can download Shrek 2 in Finland and he is a Okay guy but if he does in LA Califor I A he is a thief.Stealing Ideas. lets change from a NICHE hobby to some true gp. Jasper is a worker in the international Solar Battery Corp own by Robert A Heinlien. He completes his report on Ship stones and posts into a pdf on the company intradept web page. Along comes Kalyanyr who has access to their intradept web page because web master PirateCat has not block outsite IP. So Kalanyr builds a couple of shipstones (improved solar battieris) and puts him in his basement. Tells the power company he is not paying his power bill and wants them to cut down his power line and lock his meter. He enjoys free ac and tv and electricity and slowly pays off Southern Power until they remove the bad mark on his credit rating but does not allow Southern Power to rehook up him to their power grid. After all he has not hurt any one.  Who has he stolen from after all he spend $1000 on is Discover card to get his materials, He spend 6 hours learn how to solder and weld. And He spend 40 hours moving his D&D collection out of his basement to hold the shipstones. Who has he STOLEN from.Hey  I have stolen from grocery stores.  I firgure out the pass code to the free copy the zerox the machine at school. I admit I am a thief in the U.S.A.  Those with full PDF, .doc, word pad, etc FULL COPIES of copyright material are thieves. IF your country aka FINLAND and other don't match the U.S.A. laws but you have copies of U.S.A product your are a legal user but unethical thief.with all this bs I am remind of Patrick Duffy one of my high school classmates who proclaim some star ripped off some of lyrics. I never discover if he even when to court on the case.And your point? Arguably, if enough people choose file sharing over purchase, the point will be moot because there will no longer be a physical copy to purchase. The more people that do so guilt-free, the more the idea spreads... from phork But a Physical copy does EXIST in the hard drive of your machine. You ARE taking up space on your hard drive /what other media  you use. and that media does have a cost, a price, and  a physical existance. Now Granted you can pack the complete works of Shake of His Spear on one Cd where it takes a six inch printed version Kalanyr I really don't care if you cut the corner of my lawn and  pass under the stop sign (city property) but when you stomp on my wife  tulip bed when doing so. You ARE doing damage. Now the question is will Mr. Kalayany be a good citizen  and apolized to MS. Jasper and go to Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart and buy a bag o Tulip bulbs Or start saying things which will get Eric Grandmother upset and cause Jasper to get his shot gun. Wrong it is a rational arguement with the attrachet nusicnce laws (hey PirateCat has a swimming pool and trampolie so he is responsible when Taylor trailor park trash sneaks into his pool and drowns because he didn't know how to swim)</blockquote>

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