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Don’t Copy That Floppy (circa 1992):

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Somewhere in the discussion at Slashdot, someone brought out this analogy, to counter anti-piracy:

Got into this argument with someone today. They said they wouldn’t be STEALING a movie they want to see. I pointed out that downloading it is hardly stealing when, by my downloading it, I am not depriving a single person from seeing it.

The car analogy doesn’t work unless when I download Big Robots Part 8, someone going to see the movie gets turned away. “Sorry, Goldberg’s Pants pirated this film so you can’t see it.”

Definitely not the first time I’m hearing that argument. I think the anti-anti-piracy people need a better analogy than that. I would give it to the anti-piracy guys with their “You wouldn’t steal a car” argument/analogy if the best anti-anti-piracy people could came up was that.

At least so far I haven’t heard The Pirate Bay used that argument.

Software piracy is a illegal. Fullstop. No buts. No anti-anti-piracy.