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Would you steal this too if you could?

Are you a moron?

Nobody can ever make anything digital because you can just get a free copy and you're entitled to it?

I can design and sell shoes but I can't write a book after the creation of the Internet bc Merc is entitled to a copy because he wants one and you can download it?

All that's happening here is a bunch of computer nerds have figured out how to get things for free, and declare they have the right to steal things simply because they can.

Same thing as all the looters in California who know that they can steal up to $1,000 of merchandise from any brick and mortar store, with no consequences. So gangs of kids in black hoodies are going into stores and filling up their bags and running out the door with $999 of unpaid merchandise per kid, and there's nothing any of the store clerks can do, and the police won't even come out to intervene.

So now all the stores can do is lock up all the merchandise behind plexiglass cases and now any normal Shopper has to ask a store employee to unlock each item they want to purchase, and the employee has to carry it to the front of the store until the customer pays for it.

Is this the kind of world you want to live in?

I mean I kinda wish we could go back to the days when people's hands were cut off when they're caught stealing. That might incentivize people to stop stealing stuff that other people produced for sale in order to earn a livelihood.