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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.
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This flexibility is what makes the law immoral.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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.
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Copyright law began because publishers were taking advantage of authors. The law is flexible enough to allow publishers to keep taking advantage of authors.