To be fair, it is actually dangerous, especially with heavier doors. If one is simply competent and mechanically inclined, you figure out that you need to put the door up and tie it in place to take tension off the springs.
But oh my god, there are stupid people out there. And no one wants to be liable because some idiot couldn't be safe while working with large, powerful springs and a metal garage door/gate that wants to fall back down.
A) Copying what you already own the rights to is nothing at all like theft. You wouldn't have purchased a second copy purely as back up anyway, so there is no monetary loss to the owner.
B) Copying to sample before purchasing a hard copy (such as a CD or DVD): Just makes a process easier that's already been used for a long time, such as listening to a friend's copy or waiting for a song to come on to the radio.
C) Downloading to increase convenience, because the copyright owners won't sell it to you in the format you want: technically illegal, morally grey. If you are firm on never purchasing content with DRM in any form, even when you can't find a downloadable form of something you want badly, but do purchase content when it's in a downloadable non-DRM form, then you are pretty much good to go in my books.
D) Refusing to ever buy any content and always downloading it is the closest to theft, in the form of lost sales, but no item has been removed from the content owner, and the copies are not being sold for profit (which was what copyright was originally about, so that people wouldn't sell copies of your work with out having to pay you for the right). This should not be done.
SO just remember, copying/downloading is situational. And content owners are better off just selling it as DRM free content. They avoid the expense of DRM research, development, and implementation, and make more sales over all.
and DRM is always broken quickly, thus making content available online. Which means people who are going to DL the content will do so anyway, making money spent on DRM a resource draining waste with no real benefits. It's literally just throwing away company money.
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Re: Just Like the Garage Door Install / Repair Industry
To be fair, it is actually dangerous, especially with heavier doors. If one is simply competent and mechanically inclined, you figure out that you need to put the door up and tie it in place to take tension off the springs.
But oh my god, there are stupid people out there. And no one wants to be liable because some idiot couldn't be safe while working with large, powerful springs and a metal garage door/gate that wants to fall back down.
Re: Copying IS like theft...
Eh, some what like, but not really.
A) Copying what you already own the rights to is nothing at all like theft. You wouldn't have purchased a second copy purely as back up anyway, so there is no monetary loss to the owner.
B) Copying to sample before purchasing a hard copy (such as a CD or DVD): Just makes a process easier that's already been used for a long time, such as listening to a friend's copy or waiting for a song to come on to the radio.
C) Downloading to increase convenience, because the copyright owners won't sell it to you in the format you want: technically illegal, morally grey. If you are firm on never purchasing content with DRM in any form, even when you can't find a downloadable form of something you want badly, but do purchase content when it's in a downloadable non-DRM form, then you are pretty much good to go in my books.
D) Refusing to ever buy any content and always downloading it is the closest to theft, in the form of lost sales, but no item has been removed from the content owner, and the copies are not being sold for profit (which was what copyright was originally about, so that people wouldn't sell copies of your work with out having to pay you for the right). This should not be done.
SO just remember, copying/downloading is situational. And content owners are better off just selling it as DRM free content. They avoid the expense of DRM research, development, and implementation, and make more sales over all.
and DRM is always broken quickly, thus making content available online. Which means people who are going to DL the content will do so anyway, making money spent on DRM a resource draining waste with no real benefits. It's literally just throwing away company money.