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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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.
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FAIR USE. FAIR USE. FAIR USE.
It is not stealing to copy a book. Period. It is not even necessarily copyright infringement. Copyright law recognizes the concept of fair use, even if you don't. It is not black-and-white.