On 2011-08-08 10:33, Warp wrote:
>    He presented the argument completely seriously. I don't understand why
> some people honestly think that's any kind of justification. It's not like
> playing a computer game is necessary for anything at all. I don't understand
> by what logic if you can't afford a game, it's ok to pirate it. What kind
> of sense does that make?

I think that, to an extent, it relates to the ability to reproduce the 
game/music/movie/whatever losslessly, an unlimited number of times.  It 
throws a wrench in the supply-and-demand model, because supply becomes 
infinity.  It makes the actual-value of the product 'zero'.

It's part of why it's so hard to get any money for a digital drawing 
you've made; value lies in uniqueness.  Even if you make 1,000,000 
prints of a drawing, those are numbered and you can sell the physical 
item for more than a copy of the digital file, even though the image is 
the same (and, for all intents and purposes, what is supposedly being 
bought).

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.sjcook.com

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