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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's not theft - it's copyright infringement. That doesn't make it any less "wrong". You are still taking something that you have no right to without paying for it.
It's not laughable in the least. It's simply wrong.
There are other entirely legal ways of sampling music in the form of streaming services. Deleting the file doesn't lessen the offence of copyright infringement. You've infringed copyright the instant you download the file.
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I think, at a fundamental level, your first assertion is what drives your position on copyright and what many are disagreeing with. You are essentially arguing that something is wrong because it is wrong, not because it necessarily results in harm. That just seems like an arbitrary way to determine what is right and wrong and how the law should operate.
If someone downloads my work without paying for it, and would never have paid for it, what do I care? I wouldn't be made better off in that transaction if they hadn't downloaded it at all.
On the plus side, I'm glad these conversations have moved past the childish, "downloading is stealing!" line of reasoning. Maybe we're actually making some progress towards having a reasonable conversation on copyright.