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Originally Posted by sbroome
I disagree in every way possible. I think people just get into cutesy lawyer mode when they refuse to acknowledge something pretty basic, which is that you're supposed to pay for consumption and instead choose to partake for free. Sneaking into a movie theater or amusement park is dishonest; whether there were seats that were going to be unused or not doesn't matter. If an item is up for sale and you and 20,000 other people get the free version via download you're not in any kind of gray area, it's just taking something that doesn't belong to you (belong in the ownership sense of purchasing).
I find attempts to paint pirates as care-free Robin Hoods to be far more dishonest.
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You have a couple of things wrong. For one, paying for an ebook doesn't give you ownership. For another, Robin Hood was an actual thief, and while I agree that painting pirates as Robin Hoods is dishonest I don't think that it was your intent to insult yourself.