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Originally Posted by WritePR
YES THEY ARE. In every sense of the word! Period. They are stealing income from the people who created that book, game, movie, album, or software they downloaded ILLEGALLY because they think they are entitled to not have to pay for like everyone else, especially if they then let others download their stolen book, movie, album, or game.
Tell an actor, musician, or software developer you refuse to pay for their hard work and are going to download it off a torrent somewhere and they'll tell you the same thing.
Your disrespect for people who create books, music, games and other forms of entertainment is disgusting. I bet you wouldn't want to work for free!
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Of course an author have to work for free if nobody want to by the book. So it seems to me to be a lot of entitlement in your opinion since you seem to say that if you do a thing you are entitled to be payed. It sounds like you believe that at least.
And downloading something illegally is called copyright infringement. Calling it stealing is usually done by people that would like to misrepresent the real arguments.
Remember also that the normal case is that you can copy anything. Copyright is an artificial restriction on that that was introduced to stimulate creation. It was not introduced because there was som right or entitlement for authors to get paid.