[Gllug] Uh oh, ministers consider "anti file-sharing laws"

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Oct 31 21:53:28 UTC 2007


On Wednesday, 31 Oct 2007, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>David Damerell wrote:
>>>"Not buying product A is morally equivalent to stealing product A".
>>Well done. That's the end of the reductio ad absurdum. It begins with
>>your assertion that "deprives the software house of income" => 
>>"equivalent to stealing".
>Which I in fact never said.

Really? Then why did you produce "Downloading a cracked game from the
Internet deprives the software house of income" to justify the
assertion that it was morally equivalent to stealing? Was it merely a
random irrelevancy?

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