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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 2723916" data-attributes="member: 957">Then yolu are never going to really "get" the issue.Yep.  And Infringement is infringement.  And infrigement is not theft.Try taking someone who commits infringement to court using the laws against theft and see how far you get.Wrong.Your flawed bank robbing example relies on a lack of understanding of the abstract concept of currency.Your actual exampel of an ear of corn was more valid in substance.  But by needs was abandoned by you because you can not defend it in valid terms.  If you can not see the difference between actually depriving a person of a finite item and replicating their IP, then you can never hope to really get the core issue.It makes no difference.  If I buy the rights to the script from you, they belong to me.   The full value of the product, including any potential future exposure for you, is covered in the purchase price that you voluntarily agree to.  First, you did say that the value of water would be higher under your circumstances and you defgined those circumstances as being less wasteful.  That is absurd.Second, how do you define the value of water as being different than the price?  To the contrary of your premise, our technology allows us to produce great quantities of potable water at such minimal costs that people take it for granted.  People value water at exactly what its current value is.Your "News For Kids" factoids on the Earth's water supply are really quite irrellevant to the matter.  Now, if you will excuse me, I'm going back to work.  Right now I'm designing a groundwater remediation program for one of my clients.  (I really am.)</blockquote>

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