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2010-03-10, 12:46
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
I know that very well, that's why I didn't feel comfortable comparing free software to a bicycle and added ", I guess".
Well I thought I could say this anyway, probably because I was thinking...
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2010-03-08, 06:03
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2010-03-08, 05:37
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
:)
I thought about it quite a lot, and I just don't like to repeat myself.
And why should I tell you how you must rule your life and do your business ? If you're silly enough to try to sell...
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2010-03-07, 16:38
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
I very much doubt about that.
Software does exist as a hired labour. Maybe it is not major part of the sector, but it does exist.
Also, keep in mind that if non redistribution rules were to...
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2010-03-07, 16:34
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
I don't see what makes you think that I assume what you think I assume. What you're talking about here is completely different. Anyway this wasn't my point.
Whether or not someone who gets a...
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2010-03-07, 08:52
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2010-03-07, 08:24
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2010-03-07, 07:53
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2010-03-07, 07:35
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
This is actually a funny and quite pertinent way of seeing things.
I want to add that in most countries, non-redistribution rules allow you to share the sofware you bought with your family and...
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2010-03-07, 06:53
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
Yes you did. That's precisely what you require with non-redistribution rules.
What you say is precisely :
« Pay the bloody $10 for this stuff, and don't give it to anyone else. »
Sorry...
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2010-03-05, 21:55
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
If only it was only about that, everything would be fine.
But you don't just refuse to give away for free something you worked on hard to create.
You also want to put a cop behind the back of...
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2010-03-05, 18:09
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2010-03-05, 18:00
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2010-03-05, 17:54
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2010-03-05, 17:24
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
I never said that piracy isn't piracy. I said, as others did, that piracy is not theft. I said for instance that according to me, piracy is illegal gift. I never said commercial software is...
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2010-03-05, 16:19
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
God damned it I just can't help responding at least to this one. Note that the long answer from someone else previously was quite good too and would deserve some answer as well. But it was also...
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2010-03-05, 09:10
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2010-03-05, 08:46
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
According to me, copying a design should always be allowed. Only the signature, the branding, shouldn't be copied. Copying is good, unlike counterfeiting. That's the very reason of the existence...
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2010-03-05, 06:54
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
I'm not fabricating anything. And this is not random picture.
If someone has misjudged the value of this painting and overpaid it, it's whether his choice or his mistake.
As I said, pricing...
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2010-03-05, 06:45
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
Selling information is a tricky business. Journalists, for instance, know very well about that.
If you're a journalist and you have a scoop, you must absolutely keep it secret until it is printed...
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2010-03-05, 06:15
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
A painting is indeed nothing more than a canvas and some paint on it. But with a very precise arrangement of the painting.
A random arrangement has very high entropy and worths therefore not much...
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2010-03-05, 05:59
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
Well, it is quite pleasant to be understood, at last. I particularly like what you said about a software being nothing more after all than a huge number.
According to this point of view, a...
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2010-03-05, 05:28
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
Sure.
As far as I'm concerned, many times I've paid for some intellectual product.
But for the same reason that someone might think that something has some value that worths paying for, he...
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2010-03-05, 05:05
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
Well, it's funny you're talking about « creating matter from void », since we are precisely talking about non material property (intellectual products).
And indeed, there are some material costs,...
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2010-03-05, 04:39
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Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
It is not free indeed, and as mentioned earlier, it's the pirate who pays this, not the initial publisher. Therefore it's pirate's business, and it shouldn't be invoked by publisher to justify its...
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