Quote Originally Posted by givememyleg View Post
your argument here is pretty bad. you're basically saying "i can't hold the music in my hand so i shouldn't have to pay for it them greedy fucktards blaaaaah." music is music. do you really think that back when cds were popular you were paying $20 for a plastic disc? no, the physical materials cost maybe 5 cents, the other $19.95 was because of the content the cd contained.

overpriced? maybe. too many people sticking their hands in as middle men? probably.

but just because technology is shifting doesn't mean digital downloads don't count as actual property because you can't touch them with your hands or shove them up your ass.
The argument isn't that piracy is stealing something physical, it's stealing someone's profits. All the nice calculations done about the costs of piracy presume that an illegal download equals a lost sale. This of course is bollocks. I'm sure some college kid torrenting 10000 albums would have bought all of them if he didn't have access to them illegally, hence the industry just lost 10000 record sales. However, the lost sales are the only metric I agree with, that is something that can actually be said to be lost due to piracy. All kinds of moral arguments condemning piracy just because it's "wrong", or you "shouldn't be getting that for free" are just pointless jealous whining, if someone can get something for free and no one loses anything, how is that bad?