Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
 

This brings in a whole different debate......

Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
 

I agree - but just wanted to point out that many of azornis arguments are simply opinions.

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Wasn't it you who were saying I kept bringing off-related topics ?

I mean : CrashOrDie started about unemployment considerations. I just gave him my position on the subject.

Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
 

There is no actual law considering piracy in my country so... :D
Everything starts and ends with money,depends on the aspect of which you are looking from.Some people can barely afford pc`s therefore piracy is justified to an extent.

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Which country is that ?

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What about them?

Are you suggesting we change the laws such that technology is held back arbitrarily to protect the revenue stream of companies whose entire value isn't so much the product (the CEO of Coke has said that a leak of their recipe wouldn't hurt them) but the brand?

It's not as if corporations are entitled to exist.

I mean, we're still wandering around in pure hypotheticals, and in the case of a "replicator" then the valuable industries become the design and sale of replicators (since size and energy constraints will limit what they can reproduce) and, more importantly, the exchange of power and raw materials used by the devices.

But let us stop wandering down this unproductive track.

Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
 

Macedonia.There is a law...but oh well nobody cares about it and piracy isnt punishable,therefore it exist only on a piece of paper.

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Wow. I wonder how a world without punished piracy looks like.

According to some people here, it must be awful. Hell on Earth, isn'it ?

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I live in a country like that and most of our artists and software engineers migrate as soon as they can because they can't live of their trade here. Or just produce for foreign markets.

Re: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
 

Considering the average salary here is around 150 euros,and 70-80 of them are used to pay the bills...lets say it`s smells like...more food and immediate basic needs :p.