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Originally Posted by Jelly
You're relying on others to pay for your service. Without paying customers, Virgin wouldn't be providing TV in the first place.
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If you actually read up on this subject, it's quite clear that Virgin make a lot of money off people who maintain a minimum subscription, and maybe even take broadband and phone services with them, and then leech the premium channels. The cable TV issue is so insignificant that Virgin were at one stage considering throwing in their TV package for free to people who took their other services, which is where they make their money.
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If you steal cable, it puts extra strain on VM's network, regardless of whether it can handle it or not, and this translates as increased prices for legitimate customers. This doesn't happen with Music or other copyrighted material,
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Music theft is arguably a more costly "crime" than stealing cable, and it's an offence that has been prosecuted numerous times in courts of law across the world. This isn't really the case for cable theft.
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so why compare the two. Clutching at straws?
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Just trying to see if the "theft is theft" argument holds up. So far, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Originally Posted by shawty
I have dodged no MP3 question, I answered that last time we had this debate.
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I must have missed your answer, then. So you're in favor of reporting 95% of all iPod owners to the authorities, including any friends and family members you might know, who listen to illegal MP3s?
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Why the need to bring it in again, someone is stealing cable, that is theft and someone is going to report it, that someone has (as far as Im aware) never said anything about MP3's anyway, so his view on that has not been aired.
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Exactly. I would be curious to hear his view on it, though. That's somewhat the point here.