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YES THEY ARE. In every sense of the word! Period.
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All caps, and writing periods are not very convincing arguments. Legally, copyright infringement is not stealing in any legislation I know of. No amount of rhetoric will change that.
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They are stealing income from the people who created that book, game, movie, album, or software they downloaded ILLEGALLY
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Again, all caps don't make a statement more convincing. Like I mentioned, where I live downloading copyrighted material is not illegal.
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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.
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Not purchasing something is not quite equivalent of 'stealing income' from teh seller.
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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.
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Even if they do tell me so, it doesn't make their statements correct. Furthermore, I know of quite a few creators that do not agree with your point of view.
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Your disrespect for people who create books, music, games and other forms of entertainment is disgusting.
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Do you really consider it helpful to qualify those who have different opinions then yours as disgusting? Personally, I do not think that kind of attitude and statements result in a fruitful exchange of idea's in a forum like this. An easy example I can give in this regard are the works of James Joyce; I have tremendous respect for him as an author but didn't have any moral problems while downloading his complete works from MR last week.
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I bet you wouldn't want to work for free!
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I do between 10 and 20 hours of volunteer work per week -- it's very fulfilling.