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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
But uploading something to an illegal site--no matter your personal feelings on "information wants to be free" ... well, anyone doing it has to know it is illegal for a reason. Anyone doing it has to know they are taking revenue from an author and to put hours and hours of work into something like that...I can't see feeling good about it, nor can I see how they can feel they are doing someone else a favor because it is not "Theirs" to give. I'm not saying they don't feel as you describe, but I don't see how they can feel that way.
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Yet it's been going on for years, think about all the groups that spent a lot of time working on cracking software. There's a lot of pride for these people in being the one that provides something "first", even if all they're ever known by is some pseudonym.
Heck, there's enough people out there writing viruses, rootkits, trojans, etc to keep a large industry of antivirus vendors in business. And these are people that are actively doing something that will hurt a *lot* of people. There's just enough people in the world that there's always going to be some that just don't feel that they need to follow the same rules everyone else does. Trying to understand them is really probably just a waste of one's time.