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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Now, to me the "theft" of a single person violating the copyright, for example, Joe Blow downloads a copy of a Harry Potter book the theft is the $20 that they did not pay for a legitamate copy of the book.
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I would say that,
if it's theft, it's not $20, but maybe $3-6, whatever amount would be the profit for the publisher and bookseller plus the royalties for the author, etc., i.e., you shouldn't count the part of the $20 that's actually used to pay for the paper, printing, binding, storage, distribution, etc., since those are in fact items that are
saved due to the "theft".
