![]() ![]() When that plan failed, they began frisking customers as they came in. ![]() This was a mild annoyance, but had no impact on people coming in through the fire exit. ![]() To combat this, the theater owner first began hassling everyone as they came into the theater to make sure they had tickets. After all, “everyone else is doing it and we’re not hurting anyone.” The sense of scandal is gone. In the case we’re dealing with, so many people are sneaking in the fire exit that there is a certain herd comfort to the act. (We must assume the theater is infinite in size and all the seats offer the same view for this analogy to work.) But most people recognize that sneaking in is still wrong. Sure, it’s not “hurting” anyone – nobody becomes poorer by virtue of your viewing of the movie – and you are not depriving anyone else of the product. I think the closest analogy of piracy is the one Bruce offered in the comments: It’s like sneaking into a movie. Yesterday’s scourging of BioWare’s EA’s clumsy falsehoods led us back to the old discussion about software piracy being “theft”. If you don’t get it, this might help explain the joke. ![]()
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