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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
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.
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This is my feeling about it, too. Obviously, I have a vested interest in authors making money; if they didn't, or even have a prayer in hell of so doing, my business would cease to exist, which, to me, would=bad.
But even
without that, I feel that it's simply
wrong to think that it's okay to steal the results of someone else's work, sans payment. I don't think that anyone
else would like it, even if the analogy would be stealing an irreplaceable check, before they got to the bank to cash it, or stealing something that they'd bought with that money. Anyone who's ever been robbed
knows that feeling of violation.
Why people believe it's
okay to do it to a writer, I simply do not understand. Every argument I've ever seen seems to fall into the category, when distilled, of, "I want it and don't want to pay for it," no matter how well dressed-up or disguised.
Hitch