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Carolina what can you tell us about the warning that appears at the beginning of movies, which reads that piracy is comparable

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to robbery or murder? There are a lot of people that are shocked by this, and some people might think

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that both are felonies, but to go as far as comparing them in the same way...? No I definetely don't agree with this; it is just

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impossible to compare the two of them, because their mechanics of circulation are different.You can't compare the

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spread of knowledge, to the idea of robbery or murder. It definitely can't be compared to murder,

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I think we have to discard this idea, we don't even need to explain further. In the case of robbery, which it is a very common felony, it is just not the same

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because it is about belongings or tangible property. On one hand, It is like when I take something from you. if I

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take a chair from you, then you don't own the chair anymore. On the other hand, when we talk about intangible

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property, the ability to re-produce is part of its nature; it is not the same because

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it means that when I take a verse from you, you still have it. Even if I share a verse

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[from a poem] with others - it isn't like I know too many- it is not the same. There is a verse from a Colombian poet that died not long

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ago who worked on children's poems and he had a really easy verse, do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, yes my

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sun yes. He shared it with me, I wrote it down and after that I shared it with you, now the three of us have it,

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and now all of us have it, you learned it too, and that's it. It is not like I am going to steal the

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verse from him, we can't make that comparison. Piracy is a felony, and there is a legitimate property

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right behind it, it is true, but it is not comparable and I think we need a more profund discussion

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about economic and social issues, so we can keep supporting a mechanism of criminalization of this

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kind of behaviour, that I am sure, when it reaches these lenghths, affects, not only the authors, but also their relationship with the public.

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Ok, thanks Carolina