Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"
The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.
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You’re just being dishonest now. I’ve answered this several times. If you’re lending or giving someone a book, you’re limited by the very physical nature of the fact that it’s an actual book. That’s not the same as pirating digital content or copying a book (which requires physical resources and costs). Your disingenuous attitude might work on children but it’s unwelcome in this discussion.
You haven’t answered it, you keep implying the person is doing it for profit or the people would be buying the books from the artist.
If they had no intention of buying it, how’s the artist losing out…? The access of digital or physical is moot, I’m asking why it’s different if it’s just sharing.
It’s not theft for these reasons, sorry.
I never said anything about profit. It’s pointless having a discussion with you when you can’t be honest about the argument you’re making.
All you’ve argued is the money it would be taking from the artist.
Yes. That is revenue, not profit. And it’s still true and the point still stands. You’ve done nothing to argue against that point. You’ve just made dishonest comparisons libraries and lending things to friends which isn’t the problem.
You understand that without profit you won’t have revenue…. Yeah?
This is the stupidest fallicous argument ive seen in a long time. Arguing revenue and profit aren’t related. Wow.
You have that backwards. Without revenue, you can't have profit. Revenue is the money you take in for your work. Profit is the revenue you collect for your work minus the expense of what it cost to create it.
Clearly, I'm dealing with either a child or a moron. Either way, I'm not continuing this discussion with someone that doesn't even understand the difference between profit and revenue. It's not possible to have a conversation on the nuances of piracy and theft if you don't even understand the basics.
So uhh… how do you take revenue from someone if they are negative profit…? Cant take something if they dont have a profit first.
Yeesh.
It’s also completely irrelevant, revenue/profit/money, all wind up being more or less the same in the end. The fact that you think a distinction makes any difference in this is laughable.
You really can’t converse without insulting can you?