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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
HarryT's argument isn't that every illegal download is wrong because it's a lost sale, his argument is effectively that he doesn't want someone getting an unearned benefit.
It's irrelevant to people who support heavy-handed copyright enforcement that that enforcement is ineffectual and costs orders of magnitude more than the "disease"; it's offensive to them on a gut level for someone to receive works they didn't pay for, the arguments they present are merely window dressing.
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I have no stake in this, but why should it be acceptable for someone to take it for free, even if he or she never would have paid for it? That is the worst form of greed. The authors are not greedy, they are fine if those people just stay away from their works. Financially the end result for them is the same, they get nothing.