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Jesus and Software Piracy

Alan Brooks
Jul 31, 2011 at 12:14 PM

Most people are familiar with the Bible story of the time that Jesus fed 5000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish. It is one of his best-known miracle stories. But has anyone stopped to think about what he was really doing?Copyrighted Fish

When Jesus fed the 5000 with five loaves of bread and two fish, he was pirating food. Some baker worked to make that bread and some fisherman worked to catch those fish. If Jesus hadn't copied the food over and over again then the people would have had to buy more bread from the baker and more fish from the fishermen.

If you can endlessly copy bread and fish without cost then the fish and bread industries might suffer. Jesus could buy one loaf and one fish and have plenty of food for himself and even give it away to his friends. Then no one needs to buy fish or bread anymore.

I fail to see how Jesus' actions are any different from modern-day “software piracy.” One person buys a song and copies it endlessly for free and gives it away to other people.

The argument today is that it is wrong to copy music and videos without paying the people that produced them. It seems to me that Jesus made a very clear statement about this and he doesn't seem to feel that making and sharing copies of products is immoral.

I wonder if the RIAA has ever thought about that.

While I follow the analogy here I'm not sure the argument is all that compelling. One could reasonably argue that Christ's actions are different as they provided people with a biological need. Music piracy, on the other hand, does no such thing.

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If Jesus could do miracles at will such as reproducing the food, he is God. If God created life and sustains it, then God and thus Christ, are the true and ultimate owners of the fish and every ingredient of the bread. Jesus then has the right to reproduce and distribute at will.

Them same could be said of the creator of the software. They can reproduce and distribute on their own terms.

If you are going to make your case against piracy, you need to look elsewhere.

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The perspective here is wrong: Jesus did not "copy" bread and fish, God made bread, fish, and life to begin with, and thus is the original owner of all of it. Jesus was just giving away a few freebies of his bread and fish here, instead of the usual route where man must pay for it by hard work. I fail to see how that is even remotely similar to copying and distributing something that somebody else produced.

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I am not sure what to think about this. I never seen explained like this but it makes a lot of sense. But i still think you are taking it a little too far.

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I fail to see how Jesus' actions are any different from modern-day “software piracy.” One person buys a song and copies it endlessly for free and gives it away to other people.

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This is a funny article. Well, if you put it this way it makes sense. And yes, I strongly believe that Jesus doesn't think software piracy is immoral. Sharing copies of products can only damage your system. But then again, a good antivirus can solve that problem. Anyway, giving free things to other people is for sure not a sin!

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I agree that safety is the only issue when it comes to piracy. And of course, like Sofia said, antispyware can solve it. Everyone shares copies of products! That, of course, means that we are all very supportive of each other and we are willing to help all the people around us. Right!

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I have recently bought a brand new PC that uses a new computer liquid cooling systems and once my Windows 7 was up I installed my antivirus but at that moment the worst thing happened. It said that my license is not good and I still think that someone grabbed it with a program and released it over the internet. I think that software piracy is bad and one more reason to not obey the bible.

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The Bible story comparison is at least interesting, to begin with. Indeed, this is pretty much how things work in the software industry. I had this story first told by a friend of mine who has been working in an IT support New York company for years now. Just so I make you more familiar to the context, he was trying to explain me some aspects of SOPA and PIPA recently.

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