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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
This is true only if you assume that everyone who accepts a free copy would have purchased the book if they had not been offered it for free, and that is not the case... .
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You're saying there's a difference between stealing with intend to defraud and stealing just for the hell of it?
Well yes I guess there is and I suppose that is more or less what that article was about. From my point of view the first sort should be fined, sent to jail or perhaps drawn and quartered while the second type should be slapped up side the head or if they are heavy users then double the price of the bandwidth charges or some such. But for whatever reason they chose to steal, they stole and a thief should always be called a thief.
Just out of curiosity how would you refer to a person that downloads and uses a product without paying for it. Say for instance a copy of TurboCAD Pro Platinum 18 which sells for about $1400?