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by forbiddenvoid 14 days ago
I don't really buy this argument. When you buy a physical product, you are paying the entire product lifecycle, not just the marginal aspect of retail distribution. This is the same thing. The marginal inference has to come FROM somewhere. It doesn't just appear out of nowhere.
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This is the same argument people were making about how stealing music was the same as stealing a physical product.