"A good analogy would be you get in your car to drive home. On the way home you get a cellphone call informing you five separate people had stolen your car earlier in the day. You continue driving home in your car and find out 3 more people had stolen your car in the interim. While you were sleeping later that night, with your car safely in your garage, 18 different people stole your car. In the morning you get in your car and drive to work again."
But, did you build the "car" and have to pay others for producing and marketing the "Car"? The "car" in your scenario was not stolen, it was copied, or reproduced. There is still value in the reproduction; same cost and value as was put into the original.
Same with songs and software. They cost money to produce and to market. Why should they be allowed to be stolen? They are produced to be sold; not just given away, unless the manufacturer or artist decides to do so.
But, did you build the "car" and have to pay others for producing and marketing the "Car"?
Presumeably I either built the car or paid for it. Either way I worked for it.
The "car" in your scenario was not stolen, it was copied, or reproduced.
So it's not stealing if you copy it. Got it.
There is still value in the reproduction; same cost and value as was put into the original.
Actually, same value but zero cost on my part in this analogy.
Same with songs and software. They cost money to produce and to market. Why should they be allowed to be stolen?
You just corrected me, saying it wasn't stealing it was copying. See line 3 above.
