The high seas of the internet provided too much booty to turn down.
Ages ago, unsavory characters would roam the Caribbean and other warm-water seas, plundering gold from unsuspecting vessels. These men would pillage, rape, and destroy anything in their paths. They were vicious, played by no rules, and were general a-holes to everybody else. They are nothing like what Hollywood, and the internet, display them as.…
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26 - Ruvy
Robert,
Do not tell me how Jewish law works - it is a topic you do not know at all.
There is an historical reason for bargaining, a point that you seem to miss - along wioth your ignorance of Jewish law. When a fellow sets a price, he states what he expects to receive for a piece of work.
Where there is an issue of dispute over the value, then people bargain over the price. Bargaining is there in order to allow buyers and sellers to reach a "fair market price". When that opportunity to bargain is removed, and a seller posts a price that is too high, the issue of cheating arises. If the buyer has no option to bargain, as is usually the case with DVD's or software - then he has two options - to walk away without the product, or to steal it somehow. If he needs the product to make a living, and he cannot get a loan, he'll have the incentive to steal. And any rabbi worth his shmitta will say he is right to do so.
What has happened is that the sellers have posted prices that are too damned high for buyers, and refuse to negotiate - or bargain. In this atmosphere, buyers able to will steal, and they will have a justification to do so. You can try and throw around the ten commandments like an absolutist, but since we are governed by a whole bunch more, which have equal standing with the ten, you have no leg to stand on.
27 - Robert M. Barga
Here is the thing, if I own something, I have the right
28 - Robert M. Barga
to sell it at the price I wish to. YOu have no right to take it, under any legal, religious, or moral system
29 - Robert M. Barga
Ruvy, talked to a rabbi, he strongly disagrees with your statement