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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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.
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I don't think that the pirate "benefits" the author with his theoretical 6 friends, no. Do
you think that the guy who steals the bank's money, which is used to buy the van, that brings new depositors to the bank, is the bank's benefactor?
Hitch