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

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Oct 31 20:58:36 UTC 2007


On Wednesday, 31 Oct 2007, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>David Damerell wrote:
>>On Thursday, 25 Oct 2007, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>>>Downloading a cracked game from the Internet deprives the software house 
>>>of income.
>>For that matter, so does never playing or buying the game at all. Is
>>that immoral, then?
>That's literally the most stupid argument I've ever seen you put 
>forward.

It appears so because you are unable to comprehend it.

>"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".

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