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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Consider, each book sold represents money that goes to the publisher and the author. Therefore each book that is not sold because of copyright violation is money that has been effectively taken from the author and the publisher. The final result is exactly the same as if you had taken an equivalent amount of money from them.
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So if I commit any crime and is put in prison and therefore cannot buy books then the practical effect is that the authors have lost money and therefore the crime was also theft from the author?