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mucho_matcho_man wrote:

> If you meant pirates of video/dvd/music, they provide
> a good service to those who don't want to paythe full price
> for overprice goods.

How do you equate the above with this?

"In my ideal country there would be no National Health or Benefit Culture to subsidise the feckless."

Okay to steal but not okay to help the old and poor????

You make the pirates sound like noble fighters for the cause of free enterprise. It might be true in some cases. What about the ones for whom piracy is a way of money laundering or fund-raising for other activities? Or is that just propaganda?

Fair enough, MMM.

Why are Pirates called pirates?

Because they aaahhhhhh!!!!!

....the flaw in this 'argument' is that if everyone did as you suggest there
is a middle-to-high probability that you'd be out-competed, possibly to
death.

The reason I started this thread was because I read that DVD/CD piracy was on the increase, but with the arrival of downloading films and music from the internet the level of "hard " copy piracy has dropped.