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Originally Posted by tompe
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?
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You accuse me of rhetorical tricks in one post and then use this as an argument?
No, it is not theft from the author if you never use, in any way, a work that they have written.
Whether you read it or not, downloading a copyrighted work without the author's permission (which is implicit if you buy a ebook from a legitimate vendor), is making use of something you have no legal right to use.
Morally, you are taking income from them because you are using their labor without giving them fair renumeration for their labor.
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Bill