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For many people it's easier to not care... they don't want to bother with long term consequences of their behaviors.
I simply ask them if they would be OK with a company taking money out their bank account.
Your data is valuable. Why give it away for free?
This is as unconvincing an analogy as
, and for the same reason.
Unconvincing to whom? That campaign did an amazing job of equating copyright to property ownership for an entire generation.
It’s not accurate, but I think we’ve seen that it can be very convincing for most people.
Which generation is that? I'll be honest, I've yet to talk to someone who really gives a crap about where the content they're consuming is coming from. Hell, most people I've dealt with don't give a crap about content being pirated whenever it happens to be the more convenient option.