|
You most certainly do. If they have no money to spend to buy the item but take it anyway, your preventing someone else the chance to purchase it and for the company to make money.
|
We're talking about
virtual copies here.
Let's do another one of those silly analogies. There's this Ferrari you really want, but you don't have the cash. So you hit upon a brilliant plan: you scrape off a bunch of
atoms each from a few gazillion identical Ferrari models which are legitimately owned (or still unsold), then somehow assemble those atoms into the original object. The original owners lose nothing of discernable value, and you've just gained a shiny new sports car.
Sounds absurd? Well, scraping off atoms isn't exactly the same as making a partial virtual copy of a few digital bits, but the result is close. And collecting those atoms from many different sources, then reassembling them, is a concept similar to torrenting. Can you see it now?
Of course, there are plenty of horrible problems with this analogy. It's still better than comparing filesharing to stealing physical goods.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
85242
35212
Bigblah