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Recent content by Mex5150

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    File Sharing or Stealing

    That may be true for you, but it is not true for everybody. As I have already said I have personally paid probably tens of thousands of pounds to companies/bands that I first became familiar with through pirated downloads, I can think of only one instance where I bought a book (well a series of...
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    File Sharing or Stealing

    Really? I wrote one line asking if an insult was nessacery, you are the one making a big deal of it. I'm not concerned about the target of your attack, I just think there is no need to jump to ad hominems just for the sake of it. You said somebody sneaking in to watch a movie was stealing, you...
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    File Sharing or Stealing

    If you had not made a statement equating the two, no I would not have felt the need to ask the question, but as you did, I did. In an adult grown up conversation/debate it is usually considered very poor form to rely on ad hominem attacks, I was not defending or speaking for anybody, I was...
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    File Sharing or Stealing

    So if Crowns&Laurels didn't break into a house but slept there without permission, then left taking nothing with him (assuming Crowns&Laurels is a guy, sorry if not), would you consider that stealing? Was that ad hominem really necessary? The only place I can recall seeing these on sale is in...
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    File Sharing or Stealing

    As I already said somewhere above, I discovered one of my favourite bands purely because I downloaded a couple of tracks to see what they were like, I've since gone on to buy everything they have released, I've gone to see them live a couple of times, and have a few of their official t-Shirts...
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    File Sharing or Stealing

    This is only true if shop C would have paid the full price if they couldn't get it free (something you can't guarantee), so you may have lost $1000, but equally so, you may have lost $0! Let's take your over simplified scenario further, lets say shop C closes for what ever reason and the...
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    File Sharing or Stealing

    But most crippleware is of no actual use in learning that software (unless you are VERY determined). This is fine for seeing if an aplication will actually run on your set up, but that's about it. Going back to my example above, if I only had a version of photoshop that I could play with for a...
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    File Sharing or Stealing

    By definition, correct. ONLY if they would have paid for it, otherwise there is no loss. Years ago I always had the latest version of photoshop on my computer because I pirated it, The licence fee was not lost, if I couldn't get it for free, I just would have used something else, Adobe didn't...
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