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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's like saying "it's OK to ride on a train without buying a ticket" on the grounds that nobody is losing out as a result of you doing so. The train is going to run anyway, so where's the harm?
The fallacy in the argument (and in the analogous eBook argument too) is that if everyone took the same attitude, the train WOULDN'T run, and the book WOULDN'T be published. In both cases, by being a "freeloader" the person concerned is preying on the honest people; the ones one whose behalf the train runs and the books is published.
It's an attitude which cannot be ethically justified, IMHO.
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He didn't say "it is OK". He just merely stated the fact that people who download staff illegally would not buy it in aynyway.