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stargate125645
How is it subjective? It is fact. It is simply wrong to take something like a game that doesn't belong to you, digitally or otherwise. Much like your post, any substance in the argument is a reach at best.
Morals are completely subjective. The point of my post is quite obvious. It is unfortunate that you lack the capability to comprehend it.
Exactly. Theft being immoral is completely subjective.
For instance, what if some guy was selling discs of child pornography on the streets. You "stole" all those discs and burned them. You just committed theft. But was it immoral? Obviously, no.
Of course, assisted suicide is the biggest subjective moral of the century. It is widely regarded that killing someone is immoral. But is killing a person who suffers in pain 24/7 from an illness, who ask to be killed, wrong? Well that is completely up for debate and is not inherently immoral.
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Also for the sake of argument, What if the content is something that is no longer distributed such as Disney's Song of the South?
It would by law, still be illegal. The content is still copyrighted and therefore copying it is illegal. Even if it is the only means to obtain it anymore.
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Watch it on YouTube?
Therein lies a complete logic gap in most people's rage against pirates.
If you go and watch a music video, or part of a TV show, or part of a movie,or anything copyrighted (under most circumstances) on Youtube, you just committed copyright infringement.
You viewed copyrighted material without express permission of the owner. (Which is why many videos are taken down, by the way.)
It is exactly the same thing as downloading an illegal torrent. The video you watch on Youtube is downloading the same data.
How many people here have ever watched something like that on Youtube? I'm betting nearly all of you.
Should you be jailed and fined for half a million dollars?
(Granted the cases are a bit different, but the principle is the same.)
Edited by kennyparker1337 - 9/3/12 at 10:54am
