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   From: kumonryuu@hotmail.com   
      
   "Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers"  wrote in message   
   news:88requFornU1@mid.individual.net...   
   > In rec.arts.anime.misc Blade  wrote:   
   >> "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"  wrote:   
   >>> Blade wrote:   
   >>>> In most cases that is because there is not a perceived profitable   
   >>>> market for it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Then it's  a perfectly reasonable position to take (though I don't   
   >>> take it myself) that if the owner sees no profitable market, then   
   >>> there can be no stealing because the owner believes there is no money   
   >>> to be made, has no intention of selling the material there, and   
   >>> making copies therefore COSTS THE OWNER NOTHING AT ALL.   
   >>   
   >> If you don't take that position (which is not at all reasonable for a   
   >> host of reasons)   
   >   
   > Like what? Someone who's not selling doesn't lose any kind of money from   
   > people who aren't buying what he isn't selling in the first place.   
      
   So, are you arguing that position? Why not ask Sea Wasp why he isn't?   
      
   Also, it's not as if that argument hasn't come up in, like, every discussion   
   of piracy ever. I'm pretty sure that without agreeing with them at all, you   
   could probably still figure out for yourself most of the objections I would   
   raise if I could be bothered to rebut this tired old argument Wasp claims he   
   isn't advocating (but then argued for anyway).   
      
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   Blade   
      
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