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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
people do that all the time. i dont have a game system in the house for the kids to play because its not in our budget. i could steal one but i dont.
i love shrimp. i would eat it every day if I could. sadly shrimp is generally not in our budget. i dont steal shrimp.
i do not have any pirated music or books. i simply buy from whats available when i have the money to do so. I have not yet read the girl who played with fire because i have the first two books in trade paperback and will wait for that version to become available before reading.
people go without all the time. the fact that its easy to steal( or rip copies and share them with a thousand people) makes no difference as to the legality or the morality
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I am not addressing the legality or morality of illegally copying. All I am addressing is the idea illegal copying is the result of "entitlement", and that previous generations didn't have this sense of entitlement. If previous generations had the means to make illegal copies would have done so. People have been creating bootleg recordings since the means to do so has existed, and people have been creating forged works of art for centuries. Not everyone will make illegal copies, but that is true now and it was true in the past.