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Originally Posted by tompe
Well, but what defines the "deal"? If it is the law we are back with laws and not what is ethical.
Then I misunderstood your comment. But you said that "you should" keep the original and that is a moral/ethical statement. So I really think you said that it is ethical wrong to throw away the original.
And how do you take into considerations the ethical problem with destroying resources? I think is is pretty immoral to throw something away which you could have given away to somebody poor that could not afford to buy it.
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Legal and ethical aspects are often intertwined. You cannot evade that so deal with it. What makes giving away originals of copyrighted materials while retaining copies of those originals has to do with copyright law restricting that.
re: your argument explaining why you feel HarryT really said what you think he said.
Your last argument is the old Robin Hood defense, which ranks right up there with the Twinkie defense. Both are lame rationalizations. If you didn't get what I said in my post then either you aren't going to get it or you just don't want to get it.