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Re:Why I'm a Pirate by ThomPete on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @03:27PM (#3481665)
If I buy a microphone I can borrow it and give it to whoever I want to.

In fact I can chip in and share it with 200 friends if I want to.

You see the difference?

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Re:Why I'm a Pirate by reinhardt on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:24AM (#3483661)
I do, do you? Microphone sharing (a) means only one person at a time can access it and (b) it is way more inconvenient. Microphone creators are not threatened by sharing, digital creators are.
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Re:Why I'm a Pirate by ThomPete on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:30AM (#3483678)
If someone steals 20 microphones from the mic creator he has 20 microphones less. If someone downloads 20 songs from a song creator the creator of that song still has the song.

That is the difference.

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