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Tyranthraxus posted...

It's not like I'm just not gifting you a dollar, it's more like you're not being paid for the work I said I'd pay you to do.

Like, if I said "I'll pay you a dollar to take out my trash." and then you do it and you come back for a dollar and I just give you the middle finger and some sanctimonious rant about how the trash shouldn't have been there in the first place.

I think you're the one being sanctimonious in this conversation, though. I'm being pretty open about the fact that I pirate because I can and because it doesn't hurt any one. Not because I think it's my right or because I think its just. There's just no pain being caused and it makes me happy, how is that explanation sanctimonious?

Your analogy just doesn't make sense to me, I know what you're going for but I don't think it is sound, just like I said about your previous one.

Like, okay, here's another example of my pirating and I want you to help me understand what you think about it so that I can understand where you're coming from:

when I was in grad school, I wanted to do a research paper using a particular index of sprawl. But the index was behind a paywall in a journal that I did not have access to and could not afford access to. So instead I just emailed the author of the article directly and asked if he could share his publication with me. Technically I believe he isn't supposed to do that because he doesn't really own the rights to his article (the way the people who actually developed Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness probably don't own the rights to that) but he did do that for me

Is there any difference here to you between that and pirating a video game?
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