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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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No, distributing something that isn't yours, or copying someone else's work is copyright infringement. Taking something that costs money and refusing to pay for it is STEALING.
Authors do deserve to get paid. We have bills to pay and need to eat just like you.