Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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azorni is offline azorni
2010-03-05 , 05:05
Posts: 16 | Thanked: 1 time | Joined on Dec 2009 @ Paris, France
#267
Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
For starters, unless you somehow find the way to magically create matter from the void, then there is a cost, there is always a cost. The cost of the storage involved in the media, the cost of distributing it (even if it is electronically), etc There is always a cost, even if it is too small to notice at first glance.
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, related to storage and data transmission for instance, but once again, those costs are not supported by the initial publisher of intellectual products, but by the pirate himself or by the end user. That's why the cost can not be converted into price. Or more precisely, this price tend to get close to zero as soon as someone decide not to sell the object, but to give it.

Then, and here it is the part that is hard for you to understand (that, or either you are rationalizing theft... which wouldn't surprise me either, people rarely admit they are doing something wrong, even while committing the most heinous crimes ever), there is a cost directly related to the loss of income for the value creator.
The loss of income does exist only if you assume that this income should exist. This is absurd circular reasoning.

Loss of income is a fact due to a change in economic environment. It is just the same that what append for copyists after Gutenberg. You might regret it, but you can't avoid it.
Last edited by azorni; 2010-03-05 at 05:09.