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In reply to the discussion: Your view on media piracy. How strongly are you against it? [View all]Locut0s
(6,154 posts)It's true you can't share an apple. And taking an apple from the local fruit stand is depriving the owner of a possible sale, to say nothing of his own purchase cost of the apple.
Media is different though. It costs nothing to make a billion copies of the content. Nor does distributing the content cost all that much. But someone's livelihood still depends on the content itself and the sales of it. The artists behind it makes his living based on sales of his creation. When I copy a DVD and give it to a friend that friend could be seen as a lost customer, lost revenue. And certainly if only a single person bought the DVD and everyone else in the world only got copies then the artists would be starving. But is ever lent copy a lost sale? That's a greyer area. Every apple stollen is lost money, every DVD copied, well that's hard to say.