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Originally Posted by Hitch
And--what? If I said, sure, in this hypothetical situation, the pirate whose friends run out and buy it, "benefitted" the author, as a benefactor, what's the response to that? So what? What would you then say? That it's likely that all the pirates are doing just that? That some percentage are? Etc.? So that we should not consider pirates to be bad, or morally compromised, but instead, unpaid Street Teams, for self-publishers?
This is the Robin Hood thing--that it's okay to "steal from the rich" and give to the poor. Same exact mindset, if you think about it, that doing something "good" with stolen property negates the initial bad act, right?...
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All I have done is ask a specific question, I have made no other posts in this thread that might confuse my intentions. It seems that you are unwilling to nominate whether the "thief" has become "benefactor" or not. I think you have said "So what?" as you answer?
It seems to me that requires just a "Yes" or "No" answer not a lengthy lesson about Robin Hood, and priests and parishioners, etc., nor pointing out that publishing is a business, etc., nor winding up with references to mad hostility towards authors. I have not said anything that should raise assumptions about what my stance on copyright in general is but you seem awfully defensive about my asking a simple question.