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Originally Posted by gargamel
When a painter dies, the price of their artwork goes up. Do you get back at the art vendors by breaking into a gallery and stealing some paintings?
The recording industry has made some horrible PR moves, but I hate when people try to justify their stealing by pretending that they're taking some sort of a principled stand. The truth is, people steal music and movies because they know they can get away with it.
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But in your analogy once that painting is stolen it can no longer be sold to or appreciated by the fans of that artist. It's gone. It isn't theft in the traditional sense, it's copyright infringement and it's a pretty grey area.
Consider, when Game of Thrones came out on HBO I pirated it and fell in love with the show. I've since convinced 3 other couples that it is a must watch show. All 3 have since watched it on HBOs online service (that I will use for season 2) and I re-purchased the books (from a new bookstore, as I must've given away my used copies) so that my girlfriend would stop asking me what happens next. None of us would have given HBO or Mass Market Paperback a cent if piracy hadn't been an option.
But I guess this isn't really the thread for this discussion so I'll just say that at least Whitney Houston died doing what she loved: Drowning in her bathtub.