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Originally Posted by tompe
Copyright infringement is still not theft (see other threads).
The argument that it is wrong just because it is illegal seems strange. With that reasoning if I had to choose between "buying 200000 paper copies of a book and illegally downloading one electronic copy of the book" and "doing nothing" the right thing would be "doing nothing". I do not think the publishers or author would be happy with me doing the right thing.
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And the rationalization goes on.
Legal semantics do not change whether something is wrong or not.