If the users of BitTorrent created products of equal value to the products they steal with BitTorrent, then perhaps it may be considered sharing, however, the vast majority of BitTorrent users create nothing and consume everything.
That is not sharing. That is stealing.
Consumers should reward producers for production. Any other system is doomed to failure and BitTorrent creates those in any market for digital products.
It's really super simple. The fact that this community would down vote me for expressing such logic is all the more reason to believe that "hackers" need not be rational.
Theft is the depriviation of men's property, not of potential profit.
The copying and digital distribution of work cannot qualified as stealing because there is no property being stolen. Nobody is depriving anyone of their ability to watch, copy, sell, and modify these movies.
This is very simple logic. The fact that you wish to deflate these actions of copying and distribution with stealing is disingenuous.
It has been established so many times on this board that copyright infringement is NOT stealing that I would recommend against even bothering to have this argument. You're right, the other argument is disingenuous.
You are talking about messing up a tool that is used to perform economic calculation. Intentionally introducing calculation chaos into the economic system is a far different issue from who should have the right to copy, modify, and distribute digital goods.
It is obvious I would condemn counterfeiting as abusing the monetary system.
Yes, but a currency system based on intrinsic value would solve that problem, and have other beneficial effects as well, such as curbing runaway inflation (well, except that that's really the same problem, just official instead of unofficial counterfeiting).
If the users of BitTorrent created products of equal value to the products they steal with BitTorrent, then perhaps it may be considered sharing, however, the vast majority of BitTorrent users create nothing and consume everything.
That is not sharing. That is stealing.
Consumers should reward producers for production. Any other system is doomed to failure and BitTorrent creates those in any market for digital products.
It's really super simple. The fact that this community would down vote me for expressing such logic is all the more reason to believe that "hackers" need not be rational.