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Old 08-26-2010, 01:34 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale View Post
He was making an analogy. That illegal file sharing is like stealing. Indeed, I suspect that many people (and not just those directly involved in publishing) would agree with. That illegally appropriating intellectual property is the ethical equivalent of theft.

Now, can we please avoid silly legal hair splitting that really isn't relevant to the conversation?

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Bill
Many people would, and many people wouldn't. More importantly the law differs between the two.
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