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> Proponents of piracy don’t understand that it takes teams of people (each with a family to feed, bills to pay) to build stuff.

Opponents of piracy don't understand that financial loss was never proven by studies and is an urban legend at this point.



Which one is the urban legend?

Is it that "Let's pirate, it's good for the society, I'm told it is free marketing"?


No the financial loss stories, it's a complete urban legend, never proven by any study

Repeating lies doesn't make it true, even if you have money to push it.


Let's pirate, because, unfortunately it's the best way to preserve the old stuff, because copyright holders mostly don't give a damn about preservation.

Piracy is harmful short term, but absolutely necessary long term.


I still hope to download a car some day.


Well, there is the stealing part.


Which part? Stealing means that something is missing afterwards. That is obviously not the case. You mean unauthorized copy.


The part with the stealing.




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