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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
In both cases, the person was punished for his illegal act. That is the morality.
Obviously, law (and enforcement) can be flexible... and yes, we all know about how powerful and influential people manage to bend the law to lenience in their case.
But that doesn't remove the morality of law... only its effectiveness.
To be clear, what we're really discussing here is the effectiveness of copyright law, because I don't really believe there are too many MR members here who believe that authors' works should be stolen.
Right?
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I'm not sure that people see digital theft as actual theft because of the lack of physical goods. I'm just basing that on what I've seen from people who defend piracy (that and the "wouldn't have gotten it if it weren't available for free" thing).