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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Why do you believe this?
Copying for personal gain/cheating on exams/avoiding paying for a product(stealing) or passing off anothers work as your own, is generally considered immoral/illegal.
Not as bad as murder, but way up on the list of things to avoid if you wish to think of your self as a moral person.
I don't care what you steal in a personal sense. Makes me irresponsible I suppose, but I am not in charge of your morality.
I suspect that you do care and feel guilty in some small way or you would not feel this constant need to justify/glorify your behavior.
Helen
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Copying is in our nature. Personal gain is a very general term, every time I read a book I feel that I have gained something. Perhaps a small insight into the mind of another. This is how ideas spread I suppose.
I understand that authors need to be compensated for their work but we should be able to come up with a system that allows for free access to all texts while still compensating those texts creators.
I think it is immoral to tell that someone that they cannot read something because they cannot afford the price of admission. Copyright is holding back the potential of knowledge.