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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
Calling it "theft" just to be inflammatory doesn't move us one step closer to finding any agreement, or even common ground.
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Surely not even the most naive of us believe anyone changes their mind on this perpetual topic? This topic, in the many threads it pops up in, exists only for people to talk past each other, since each side is fundamentally incapable of thinking the way the other does. The closest anyone has ever come to changing their mind is when an author has said "I used to obsess about piracy, but now I've learned to live with it." Which is not to say that they think it ethical, merely that it's inescapable. Worrying about the inevitable is as pointless as discussing it.