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Originally Posted by BookCat
There are plenty of Scrooges with lots of money who would rather hoard the money and steal the book if a pirate copy is available, but they would pay for it otherwise.
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Now you are disapproving of wealthy people? All wealthy people are wealthy by choice, not by how much income they have availlable. Same with poor people, most poor people are poor by choice. The only difference between a poor and a wealthy person is the ability of the wealthy to stay within their means when it comes to spending money. So I highly doubt that a wealthy person would download pirate copies even though they would and could have easily paid for them. The decision is a moral choice, not a financial choice.
When it comes to movie streaming, I heard a really good explanation from a co worker last week that is hard to argue against. He tried to convince me to jailbreak a fire stick so I could stream movies and live tv for free. And I kept asking why I would want to do that? Because it is free. But it is illegal. No it is not illegal, it is in a grey zone. Downloading is maybe illegal in some cases, but streaming itself is technically not illegal (in the US as of right now). So even if you get caught, there is no legal repercussion (criminal or civil). So that is how they justify it. And who am I to tell him off? All I can do is make the conscious decision not to enter the grey zone myself.