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Originally Posted by gargamel
By that reasoning, it's acceptable to sneak into a Flames game without a ticket, find an empty seat to watch the game, then send the owners some cash if the team wins. After all, nobody else is losing a ticket and you wouldn't have been able to determine in advance if the team would put in a good effort.
I think the only reason why that would be seen differently is that our generation has become accustomed to stealing movies and music, whereas we've never gotten out of the habit of paying for sports tickets.
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The problem is that this issue has broken through the 100th monkey barrier. Millions and Millions of people will download regardless of what the consequences are. The genie is out of the bottle. There are two ways that you can approach the parameters of the new paradigm. One, you can try to punish the millions of ner do wells, which won't stop the issue at all and will serve nothing other than proving that you are colossal dicks. Or shape your business model to be increasingly fair and ubiquitous as possible. Piracy even then would still happen, but you would have more customers than you otherwise would, which would increase your bottom line at the end of the day.
It's actually evolved beyond a moral issue of theft and intellectual rights. It's about a group (RIAA) that are fighting the fact that people want content that fits easily into their lives instead of trying to provide that content in exactly the manner that was fitting in 1930.