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Originally Posted by murg
While I agree that having people steal your work is bad, in many ways it is the fault of the publishers for taking the easy way out and making stealing from them so very easy.
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No, it's the greed of the people who want something for nothing. The fact that something is easy to steal does not morally excuse the act of stealing it. And unfortunately the law as it stands gives virtually no help to people like me who are having their work stolen: it's far too expensive for an ordinary individual to take someone to court even if you can get proof that they've taken your work. We can sometimes do things - eg on one occasion I was able to get a student expelled from a Japanese university who was pirating my software and selling it on eBay - but such successes against the criminals are few and far between.