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Originally Posted by Hitch
My least-fave is the "it's not theft, because it's copyright infringement" argument, (the legal speciousness argument) and that there's no "stealing," because the money (by the author) was never earned. Lovely bit of rationalizing.
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My least favorite is 'copying isn't theft because the original file still exists, "copying" allows more than one thing to exist (1+1=2).'
In the end the customer keeps his money and the author isn't paid (1-1 = 0). Rationalize all you want, an author writing books that keep getting given away for free isn't going to continue writing.