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Originally Posted by Rathji
Just because you don't want to pay an inflated price for an object it doesn't mean you can steal it. If I went into Canadian tire and wanted to buy a single butt-end connector for 14 gauge wiring but they only sold them in packages of 10, would I be justified in ripping open the package and putting it in my pocket? No, I would buy all 10 and have them for later.
Or are you really just trying to justify stealing them because it would be a little more inconvenient to have to find a seller on ebay and wait a week for it to ship to you?
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Not the same thing though, you aren't even setting foot in the store and all packages are unopened, no sales are lost. For this to be equivalent, you'd need a way to "copy" the connectors for yourself, without spending anything.
Your example is exactly what iTunes is.....buy 1 of 10 connectors if that's all you want. The people that should be getting hit hard with this are the ones who steal from the production/record companies and then create the copies for the masses. All of us still pay for bandwidth and the hardware to acquire the copies, legit or not.