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Originally Posted by Tangible  while I agree that copying intellectual property is wrong, the two scenarios are not equivalent. The equivalent would be putting Martha's spatula in a cloning machine, or designing a Spatula just like hers. In this scenario, Martha still has her spatula. |
Again, you don't comprehend economics. Money is not 'real' either. Not anymore. It's just numbers in computers or on paper. So why is it that the government will come down very hard on people who try to make their own? What does it matter, they are just more or less putting money in a cloning machine. Everyone else still has their money that they had before. These folks just now have a lot of their own.
What is that a bad thing? If you understand the answer to that, then you understand why the constant repeated mantra of they still have their music is a meaningless rationalization for theft.