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Originally Posted by PKFFW
Since no others seem willing to reply.........
So in a nut shell you(and I imagine the others arguing that "file sharing" is not wrong but who refuse to respond to my question) are admitting that fundamentally, at it's core,"file sharing" is indeed wrong. You simply think it is justified due to the arguments put forward. Kind of like an "ends justifies the means" argument. Glad that is cleared up.
Totally different point and not one I am interested in discussing. I will say you are most likely correct, however, that has nothing to do with the fundamental wrongness or otherwise of "file sharing".
Cheers,
PKFFW
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I answer to a few post of this thread.
First : Some do not answer, because they receive the file, once a week, other because they do not want to, etc.. . So what ?
Second : File sharing is not wrong. whatever it means. (i will explain later)
Third : In my previous comment on this thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...18685#poststop
The questionning was too much black and white and everything that follow would be such, and therefore useless.
Fourth : Get over it, you are religious. You write and think as one. So are we all.
Fifth : Absolute - no absolute are all absolute. The important is to know our absolute and be willing to change it along the way to better ourselves. If we have no absolute, we cannot build no base.
I will stop here for the moment.
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I like to eat burger, and for many this is wrong. I respect their idea, I do not share that idea but understand their point of view. I do not feel guilty, and enjoy my burger. Talking in term of right and wrong does nothing with the exception of aggravation of both party. We live in a society and should discuss our idea, the why and change ourselves to what is better.
So in the argument you brought forward. Why the need to say it is right and wrong ? What is the purpose ? It sound like evangelism by reasoning.
The purpose of this forum is to discuss and share idea on ebooks and related topics. The topics you brought is a valid one, but your post seem to indicate that you are the right one and everyone else is wrong, even more if they do not answer your post. It look as a tactic to control and bring everyone to think like you. It might not be what you want to accomplish, but that is what it look like and may be just to me.
(whatever it means) We all have moral basis to an extent, and then there is those of society (our laws, etc.). These are always in tension to better either one. So when your question to ask about ethics, right and wrong, cannot be answered properly, without more clarification, discussion of all related matter, and so to be able to change either, our moral basis or law. For either are not totally right and wrong, so to ask a question in such a way as totally right or wrong become useless as data to help understand either our moral ou law.
Sharing of idea, is the way to go. Most of all idea are develop in such environment.
We need to find a way to pay the authors and workers properly, that is the issue.
You know that a lot of copyright are idea stolen from others and it is legal. Is that right ? Legally it is, morally it is not ? That is for me. That is why we need to change some law in our society, not to make it more restrictive with more fine.
How? By talking more about the distribution of what need to be paid, to who, and how? the file-sharing system could become one more way to transact in the future.
There is a lot of change coming, the black and white does not work anymore, unless we become a dictatorship society. That will also mean a elite society. Some will even argue that is the best way to go. :-)
I am not one of those, therefore, for the moment, file sharing is not wrong.
The copyright in my country (if read to the letter) would be wrong to lend a book to someone else. And then it would not hold into court, if i lend my books to my wife, children,, friends, co-worker, acquaintance, and so on, as long as i do not profit from it. ;-)
So another question would be, is it wrong to lend a book ?
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