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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If I make an ebook out of a printed book, and email it to six of my friends, who no longer has a book because of it? Whose book have I stolen? If it's out of print, whose money have I stolen?
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You don't have the right to do that. You've stolen the author's IP. It's theft, no matter how you dress it up.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Perhaps more importantly--why do you insist it is stealing, when the law does not? Do you think that your personal morals should override the courts?
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Why not? people promoting filesharing seems to think their personal morals override the law. They seem to think it's perfectly okay to violate copyright law just because it's easy and they want to.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I am sometimes persuaded to change my actions because they have, or could, hurt people. I am never persuaded to change them because someone is offended by them.
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Do you honestly think filesharing does no harm, really?
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
(This mini-rant is entirely related to calling copyright infringement "stealing," and has nothing to do with my thoughts on filesharing of ebooks. I'm strongly in favor of reasonably-priced, DRM-free ebooks, and I spend dollars in that direction and encourage my friends to do the same.)
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I'm in favor of the same things, but it does not in anyway change my opinion that filesharing is stealing.