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Originally Posted by Catlady
Saying that everything except one purchase/one reader is piracy is just silly. It's like saying there's no difference between making a copy of an e-book for Great-aunt Matilda to read in the nursing home and uploading the e-book to a file-sharing site for the enjoyment of thousands of strangers.
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It's stealing if, one time in your life, you pocket a stick of gum from a damaged pack found in the back isle of a chain pharmacy. And it's stealing if you are a successful professional burglar who concentrates on unlocked huts in one of India's poorest towns. Both are wrong, even though the degree of wrongness differs greatly.
Just as most people, at some point in their life, have stolen, most people in the future will have, at some point in their life, pirated. This shouldn't prevent us from recognizing stealing and piracy.