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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
.....There's a lot of inventive word-play that goes on around here, used to justify people's positions. Some of it is legal wordplay. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to whether or not you took something that doesn't belong to you...
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That sums it up exactly!! If someone didn't mean for you to have their stuff for free and you took it anyway, then it's stealing. Regardless of whether or not it's electrons, cars, ideas, shoes, etc...
If I walk into Borders, see a book I like but then decide that the publisher is ripping off the author or that Borders is charging too much, I'm still not allowed to stick it under my shirt and walk out. It doesn't belong to me.