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Posted by Frank ess on 12/09/06 23:06
Bill Funk wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:37:45 -0800, Christopher Campbell
> <christophercampbell@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:10:24 -0800, Bill wrote
>> (in article <FbqdnUXB3dErSeTYnZ2dnUVZ_oSinZ2d@golden.net>):
>>
>>> But the whole point is that "stealing" a copy of a song or video
>>> is
>>> precisely NOT like stealing a car. In fact, a car is the thing it
>>> is least like.
>>>
>>> If someone stole your car and you still had your car-- that's what
>>> it would be like. Especially if you were in the business of
>>> selling cars.
>>
>> Ah, so if someone steals a sale of your CD or DVD, you get the
>> money
>> anyway? You are an idiot. A dishonest idiot at that.
>
> I think you missed the analogy.
> If I borrow your car, then don't return it, you don't have your car.
> But, if i borrow it and return in, you still have your car.
> If I borrow your CD, and return it, you still have your CD. If I
> borrow your CD and rip it to my computer, then return it, you still
> have your CD, just like you still have your car if I return it.
> It's the *value* that's stolen when I rip it; and the value that's
> gone is the price of the CD to the retail chain, not you.
>
> Now, if I borrow your car, then crush it and return it, you still
> have
> your car.
> :-)
Seems to me it's more like as if I'm a manufacturer of transportation
modules, I put some of them on a lot for sale, you take it and use it
whenever you want. You stole one of my products. That I still have
numerous similar or identical copies of my transportation module (in
which I have invested billions in design and development costs, not to
mention manufacture and distribution!) on lots around the world is not
material to the fact that you took one of them without paying, and you
have use of it without just compensation to the owner, me.
So now your friend makes a copy of my
designed-developed-built-distributed vehicle. Regardless of the
simplicity of the copying process, he still owes me for the
designed-developed part, at the very least.
Pay up, slick.
--
Frank ess
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