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I can "render" a movie onto my harddrive from bittorrent in minutes. I don't know why Pixar has to spend so much time on their rendering! /s

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If stealing movies helped people survived, given financial difficulties, then they'll do it. Survival beats "no-steal" laws.

in the face of immorality, morality stand supreme

Would you wait to die instead of stealing something to save yourself?

Sorry but that is not a valid comparison.

Movies are for fun & profit.

Medicine is for people's health / survival and profit.

You can live without the first but without the second you'll probably die soon and maybe painful as well (depending on the first fatal desease you contract).

Equally, my personal utility gained from new innovations in the pharmaceutical space is much higher than the entertainment space. As long as the pharmaceutical industry doesn't go the way of the post-piracy entertainment industry, this is great. I don't think anyone is arguing that big pharma is perfect, but I do enjoy the fact that a lot of money goes into finding new drugs.

this is the worst analogy ever

Not really. Pixar has to render a movie before you can download it. Pfizer has to develop the medicine before you can synthesize it.

A more apt analogy would be to make the movie again, frame by frame, using different voice actors maybe and slightly changing the character looks. Sure, they are skipping over the long process of writing and refining a script, painfully planning and directing the movie over many years and then carefully editing it to perfection, but it's not quite the same as downloading the finished movie.

Most of the replies to this comment don't seem to understand that "/s" indicates sarcasm.

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