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Originally Posted by spaceman  Well , when the consumer is pirating it, he's not saying ""hey, your products suck, and I refuse to pay for them", he's saying "hey, your products are great, and i'm going to download it without paying for it, even your not ok with that". Why would he be pirating something he doesn't like in the first place ? Masochism ? |
How does s/he know if he likes it until he has it? I think you're making the assumption that all pirated goods are 'consumed' the same as all purchased goods. The sheer amount of piracy I believe would make this impossible to be true.
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And i absolutely think that the consumer have the obligation to respect the purveyor of goods. If i go in a store and i don't like the products, i don't set the store on fire. I leave and go buy something else, somewhere else.
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Setting fire to a store that you don't like has nothing to do with respect, that's sociopathy.
When you walked in, there was no obligation to respect their desire for you to purchase their goods or services. They must earn that. They must also earn your return business and your word of mouth.
I think respect maybe a bad word to use, as you used it in a general term (as we should have a basic, neutral level of respect for all people) and the specific term of respect increased beyond the neutral level that I was using (as you were initially I though).