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You're entitled to watch organic bread without paying.

The problem with comparing content piracy with theft of physical objects is that the latter are scare and the former is not. I'm not trying to justify content piracy, I'm just saying that you-wouldn't-download-a-car analogies are invalid.



No, you aren't. The response to your silly analogy is, "if I throw a black drape over my organic bread and allow you to see it only after paying for a loaf, you cannot legally enter my shop and remove the drape".

The fact that nobody would set up such a system is evidence that your analogy is unproductive, not that your argument is strong.


The very point of my comment is that such analogies are silly and unproductive.


I said your analogy was unproductive. I don't agree that all of them are.




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