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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
Except, of course, that with copyright infringement you haven't "taken" anything. So I think we can both agree that no theft has occurred, not even in spirit.
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yes, it occurred. People hear some author is great and his work is magical and hurry to darknet to download it rather than pay for his labor. Potential income is lost -- certainly not as high as publishers want you to think about losses to piracy but still certainly lost.
you keep hammering on that argument and that fiction is knowledge and wants to be free and it just sounds awful and egoistical...
you don't even want to read the best from mankind, all available for free in the public domain, no, you want useful knowledge from Stephanie Meyer's best sellers, which no doubt will help a poor African child get his daily bread and education, right?
