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Originally Posted by ardeegee
You have something you like, you want to share it. You benefit from others sharing their stuff with you, so you share your stuff with them. As simple as that. Money has nothing to do with it.
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1. There's a book you'd like to read or some music you'd like to listen to, but you don't want to pay anyone who actually worked to produce it. So you take it.
Unless the item is genuinely not available, money has almost everything to do with it. Pirates set up elaborate justifications for their stealing - like that the publishers are really stealing from the authors, or that copyright is broken. But they know that stealing is bad and are simply looking for some way to pretend that what they're doing is somehow virtuous because they're sticking it to the man. What they're really doing, of course, is sticking it to the author or musician.