![]() ![]() When I choose to watch one video, but not another, I have not somehow taken value away from anyone. ![]() The legal owner of the unpaid pumpkins (the store) is now unable to sell them to a paying customer. The pumpkins argument is a strawman: with physical goods, theft and loss of value has occurred. When reading a magazine, do I need to start from the first page and spend a minimum number of seconds staring at the multiple full-page ads before flipping to an article I might actually be interested in?ĭo we need to make VHS tapes and DVRs illegal, if they allow the user to record only the parts of the program they're interested in, while skipping over the commercial breaks? Shouldn't everyone be required to listen to them? Shall we make it illegal to switch radio stations when they stop playing music and start running commercials? After all, the advertiser paid good money for those commercials to play. It's not my fault you set this up for me to do so." If you applied your mentality everywhere, you would say "if you don't want me to litter in this National Forest, there ought not to be any businesses that sell disposable products within a 500 mile radius. You shouldn't though and you're rightfully called an asshole if you do. ![]() Just because its physically possible to do a thing doesn't mean the company consents to you doing it, or you deserve to do it. In other words, you're ignoring both the legal contract (the terms of service) and the social contract (if everyone just grabs a pumpkin and walks away its obviously not going to be profitable and the company will stop offering it, we can only have the social 'nice thing' if everyone plays nice). I can just walk by the store and grab one and walk away". You're doing the digital equivalent of saying "the pumpkins are right there for me to take, they were delivered outside for me to pick up and place in my car, for free. ![]() Imagine a grocery store leaves pumpkins outside the front during Halloween season for customers to bring inside and buy. ![]()
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