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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The answer is nobody. I've hurt nobody. I wasn't going to buy it. I didn't take it such that the author/publisher no longer has it. So really, I've hurt nobody. Yes, it's wrong to do so. But nobody has been hurt.
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So why did you take it if it wasn't worth buying? It is possibly like going up to the little old shoe shine guy and having your shoes shined and then not paying. Or going into a restaurant and not paying or only wanting to pay what the ingredients cost as if the chef and servers skills are worth nothing. Theft of services is what it is called but it is still theft.
It is denigrating the author by implying that the work is not worth anything but still taking that work as if you have a right to so so. Perhaps the author has not been hurt but you definitely have as every act of this type lowers your moral standards just a bit more.
If you really don't want it why bother to take/steal it? The argument is so specious that Giggleton makes way more sense on this issue.
Helen