If you're getting something for free you'd otherwise need to pay for you're not the customer you're the product.
So if I opt to download a movie that was released on DVD instead of paying for it from Amazon, then I have become that DVD?!
If you do the right kind of drug you may feel that way
[size=78%]. [/size]Google doesn't provide folks Gmail for free out of the goodness of their heart. They're scraping keywords from email to sell targeted ad opportunities. You're not their customer you're their product they sell to advertisers. You can extend that concept to just about everything of value you get for "free".
Usually harmless, sometimes nefarious. I just feel it's worth trying to understand the motivation behind someone giving me something for "free". Especially someone offering up a binary for folks to run as their first post
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In the case of your downloaded movie: someone had to take the time to rip it, encode it, and publish it. Why would they do this? Perhaps the reason is as simple as they hate the MPAA, and frankly that's not hard, and feel their work is taking money out of MPAA's pocket. In that case you're no so much the product but the tool but the bottom line is they didn't do it for you and the cost is that if enough revenue is lost in this fashion less movies will be produced. Unlikely, but that's just the first scenario I came up with in the 30 seconds I've thought about the cost of your "free" movie. The adage gets a bit stretched when it comes to digital theft; especially if you never planed to buy the movie if you couldn't down load it...but I'm sure some folks download vs bought.