[devonin]

Originally Posted by MinaciousGrace

id try harder if you had a more sensical analogy but the bottom line is that comparing physical goods to digital ones is silly and close minded

The defense of digital piracy is that "when I take a copy of the digital good, you still have the good, therefore, I'm not stealing, therefore, it's ok"

By creating a situation where you can look at a physical good, and go "When I take a copy of it, you still have it, therefore I'm not stealing therefore, it's ok" and then show that no, that really makes no sense, because the whole point of a purchase agreement for a good is that the person creating it is doing so with the understanding that they will get compensation for that good.

By refusing to give that compensation, even if you can claim with certainty (which you can't) that you would never ever in a million years have bought that good, you are violating the entire purpose of the creator/customer relationship.