Alright, since you missed the point of my example I will spell it out. You are blaming the group that makes the product that is abused for the wrong done with it.
Right...hitman again, have you ever had some dire need to have any of the things you steal. Has your life ever been in dire need of it. If not then, where is the moral need of it.
Again here is another example. I'm sure a lot of you have seen office space. You see how they decided to steal a penny here and there of the companies money, but it does add up.
You justify what you do the same way they do, it's not that much everytime you do it.
Hmm, 3 billion dollars on games alone, you don't call that a lot of money?
God knows I despise the RIAAs tactics as much as the rest of you, but honestly, there is no way to win against the lawsuits. I'm sure some of you would stand defiant and think you would get away with it. thing is, you are going to be slapped with a very heavy fine in the end, and no one is going to help you pay it.
All these people saying resist the RIAA, put up a stand, very few of them would do it themselves, as at 700 dollars a violation (that is the MINIMUM for copyright infringement), it would be very very costly.
Now back onto the morals of pirating.
What can you put on 80Minute, 700MB discs. well lets see...
burned copies of your own music
vcds
data back ups
pictures
legal back ups of programs
I'm sure there are a lot of other things
The fact that they have minutes on CDs is for convienence. It is far from a message of: "HEY KID STEAL MUSIC!" If it was, don't you think the RIAA would have already gone after them with a vengence?
You want to talk about underground bands, fine. Guess what, a lot of them DO depend on their music revenue, and you still say, they can live with it. If they want to live with it, they will say 'sure put our music wherever' otherwise, you have no right to judge for them what they want.
And pirating is more than 13,000 dollars, oh far more. Lets say the 15 million people on kazaa have atleast one copyrighted song. Thats right there 15 million dollars. lets make that a little more reasonable, 80 songs.
thats 18 BILLION dollars.
If you would like to explain to me how the theft of 18 billion dollars is justified, be my guest.
Once again I leave you with a little riddle: who is worse off, the thief, or the thief who steals from the thief.