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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
All that being said, an intellectual leap is required to understand that illegal download or duplication of copyrighted works is in fact stealing from the author. It is not so much that you are stealing their property as you are stealing the means of their livelihood.
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That is not true. That is like saying that not buying a book is stealing a livelihood. Since most of the downloading is done of thing that was not going to be bought in the first case you cannot equate one download with a lost sale.