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Originally Posted by cmbs
This comment is so ridiculous, it doesn't justify a response. But for anyone who honestly doesn't know and is interested:
I'm not distributing an entire work, or a large portion of a work. I'm not downloading illegally distributed works. Using very small excerpts for reviews is legal and morally fine.
There is no argument which validates stealing ebooks, no matter what lies and daydreams you may be telling yourself and others. I use small excerpts in reviews. That is nothing at all like stealing an entire work, and in no way justifies illegal distribution of an entire work.
If you're honestly interested in learning the law, rather than starting stupid fights, copyright laws are available online. Read them and learn.
If you're honestly considering the morality of stealing other people's work, just consider how you'd feel if you worked hard on something just to have some greedy disrespectful full of nonsense thinks the world belongs to him asshole come along and steal it.
It's not that hard to comprehend that it's wrong. You people are working really hard at lying to yourselves to convince yourselves it's ok.
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The question was not absurd. You said:
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Originally Posted by cmbs
Taking people's work without their permission is wrong, whether or not it's illegal. You can come up with all the excuses you want, you're not going to change the fact that it's wrong.
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Since you don't have the author's permission, obviously what you did was wrong. You should take down the excerpt.