Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Just because you never would have paid for it doesn't give you the automatic right to view/listen/consume it.


Clearly. Fortunately, nobody's arguing that it does give you such a right. The question at hand is "what harm does it do?", however, and the GP posits that the answer is "none, so why care?".


Since you are consuming the content, then it must have some value to you, otherwise you wouldn't be consuming it. So you should be paying something for that value.


I fail to see your point, at least in response to me. It would be a perfectly valid point to make to somebody claiming otherwise, but I am not. Is this comment misplaced, or am I just not following properly?


Since you are consuming the content, it has value to you. So the argument that 'I wouldn't have paid for it anyway' doesn't stand up.


Yes I should - but the original assumption was that it was not legally for sale in my region, not whether I enjoy it.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: