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Originally Posted by heliod
Would you steal from your local supermarket only because it sells things more expensive than others? Or even because they refused to give you money back for bad fruit that you have only remembered to return one month after you bought it?
Thieves are thieves and they will stay thieves everywhere, all time, and for all reasons. There is no way to justify it.
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This is the one analogy that has always bothered me whenever piracy is brought up. No matter how you feel on the issue, when you walk into a supermarket and steal something you are physically removing something from the store and therefore removing money from their pockets. This isn't the same as making a digital copy of something where the original stays there.
Morally wrong? Yes. On the same level as stealing physical products? No.
What this is really like is you buying an apple from the supermarket and every time you want to take a bite out of it you have to call the supermarket first and get permission. Then one day the supermarket decides to stop selling apples and comes over to your house and rips the apple out of your stomach, replacing it with a unusable rock, and goes on their merry way, leaving you hungry and unfulfilled and maybe even a little nauseous.
Only good honest people get hurt by DRM. DRM, especially on music, is a disease and as long as users continue to support DRM we will forever hear complaints of things from event like this. The easiest way to avoid this is to stop renting music you would rather own because that is all you're doing when you purchase DRM tracks.