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Originally Posted by AdmiralAkbar
- The other argument is that you have stolen the money you would have originally paid the copyright holder to purchase a copy is moot; the copyright holder does not have such things available. Again, how does the orignial copyright holder get hurt in any way by this?
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This is sort of the other approach I was thinking of, but didn't much touch upon. There really is no product in the market that could ever be infringed upon, in this scenario. I don't see how, especially if someone already owns the DVD version (the most recent physical distribution made available by the industry), this could possibly be considered copyright infringement. Now, if you try to convert that to Blu-Ray format, then you should definitely see a monetary penalty, but I've never once made the case in my life that the true pirates (those that re-sell others' intellectual property) shouldn't be punished.