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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
If they make use of the work, they should be willing to pay for that use. Normally this is covered by buying the book, or through taxes or other fees if you read it from a library (which buys legal copies).
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Not if you borrow a book from a friend. Also you can have lawa that guarantee use of things without somebody being payed. And they are not morally wrong just because you are not paying for something you use (for example "allemansrätten",
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_o...the_wilderness).
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Ethically, the argument that "I shouldn't have to pay for it because I wouldn't have bought it" holds no water at all.
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That was not the argument. The argument was that lost income cannot be used in an argument to motivate why it is ethically wrong.
You have to use other type of ethical reasoning to try to motivate it.