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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
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?  |
What a nice strawman argument you have made here.
Copyright is
not theft. Even most people who are pro-copyright agree that it is not theft. Even most people who think copyright infringement is morally wrong don't think it's theft. Even the
Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that copyright infringement is not theft.
Why are you and certain other people so attached to the idea that copyright infringement is theft? Do you think it's not possible for someone to make the argument that copyright infringement is wrong without the word "theft" or "stealing" involved?