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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Piracy is a two-way street. The people who give away content without compensating the owners for it are in the wrong. The people who take the content without compensating the owners for it are in the wrong. All this stuff about "I can take stuff because it's right here" doesn't make a person any less wrong.
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I don't think anyone is claiming piracy isn't wrong. Can we stop harping on the words right and wrong. They are meaningless in this discussion. Life isn't fair. People break rules; they break the law. You're never going to get them to feel bad about it.
The people reading illicit material are not waiting for your acceptance. There is no sense of entitlement. It's much more likely that people have problems with authority or just don't give a rats ass about legality. They don't feel they have the right to break the law, they just DO it.
"Is piracy moral?" and "Is piracy on the rise?" are two distinctly different questions.