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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
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.
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But that is a totally different argument and not the one you made originally. This is an argument that says that because it is illegal it is morally wrong.
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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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Well, no. I cannot see how I take income from somebody if I download something and then directly throw it away without looking at it for example.