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Originally Posted by DJ The Kid
Well yeah, you just proved my point, it's not free...
It's just on a smaller scale cost-wise than ripping off a pair of shoes.
And of course the comparison is not exact. I never claimed it was. But there are some similarities. This can be applied across many industries.
People think the online adult industry is special. Well, it is, in certain ways. But when it comes to basics, it's not!
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To me the only thing they really have in common is that both are examples of stealing someone else's work for your own profit. Beyond that I think there is very little that they share.
One is something that is very easy to duplicate and distribute while the other would take a lot of time, effort and money to duplicate and distribute. One is a digital good and another is something that is a hard good. To me a more similar comparison would be TV or music or other digital media. Not to mention the current trend in porn is to just give it away in hopes of selling some dating or cam memberships. I don't think the guys stealing shoe designs are giving away their shoes in order to hopefully sell a pair of socks.