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Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by eli on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:40AM (#15923085)
So when you deprive government of funds everyone is a victim, but when you deprive a publisher of funds no one is a victim?
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Re:How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay by shakna on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:51AM (#15923186)
That's a false equivalence, and not the implication of my statement.

If you want to read something into it, nothing mentioned in this thread is victimless.

Embezzlement hurts the other employees of a company, tax fraud hurts the citizens of a nation, and piracy seems to hurt... A small group. (In fact, large companies seem to benefit from piracy in studies. Small companies can be forced to fold. Take it as you will.)

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