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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
If I go and download from PirateBay a program that someone obviously sank their blood, sweat and tears into designing, that strikes most people as a wrong on a gut-level. However, if I would never have bought that program in the first place, is the designer harmed? What money have I deprived him or her of? Do they lose some ability to sell the program to another person?
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Enough of that tired line, already.
That's the lamest excuse since "I'll only stick the tip in."
The point is,
when you illegally downloaded the file, you committed copyright infringement, you harmed the creator of that property by depriving him of income, and you should be punished.
It's really that simple.
Saying after the fact, "If I'd known a cop was going to be there, I wouldn't have been speeding," doesn't cut the mustard in a court of law. Neither does pleading innocent to a theft because "He had others to sell."
Your making flimsy excuses for
plain and simple greed and a total lack of consideration for the producers of the goods you take. (But then, you
are a lawyer...)