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Originally Posted by tsgreer
This is where the disagreement stems from. I think that stealing a physical book and downloading it from the internet illegally is exactly the same thing. So does the law in most countries.
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Stealing a physical book is theft.
Making a copy of a digital file is NOT.
This is why there are separate laws to cover these two distinct things.
You can cry in your ice cream all you want, but it does NOT CHANGE the LAW and the reality.
Show me, good wise sirs, how if I copy a file, you no longer have it, and I will show you theft.
You cannot, it is not, and all "argument" to the contrary is disingenuous and should be
summarily ignored as ignorance by choice.
It's like a sick form of the sickness known as "Political Correctness"...
Tell me...if I say I'm going to punch you in the face, but don't...is such a thing equivalent to smashing in the front of your face with a brick?
Any idiot on the street can clearly see the difference between these two things, both conceptually and logically.
So why is it that some here keep dragging out this weary, tired notion that a copy of a poorly proofread book on some website or whatever somewhere is the same as a book sitting on a shelf in a store?
So a potato is the same as a Volkswagon is it?
I mean, good lord...my 7 year old daughter can see this difference...a bunch of learned adults seem to be...hindered in understanding this?
It's like crazy in a can. Seriously.
You are almost begging to be pointed at and laughed at, loudly and cruelly for continuing to make this absurd assertion at this point.